Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
demi P de base
English translation:
half basis point
Added to glossary by
A. & S. Witte
Oct 15, 2007 20:14
16 yrs ago
French term
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Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish) 
Works in: German to English, French to English, Spanish to English
demi P de base
French to English
Bus/Financial
Law: Contract(s)
"X facturera à Y .... une somme correspondant à la valeur de un demi P de base.....
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | half basis point |
Attorney DC Bar
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| 3 +1 | half base point |
Vania de Souza
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Proposed translations
3 days 12 hrs
Selected
half basis point
Rate differences are usually expressed in 'basis points', see e.g. announcements of Fed funds rate increases. In the context of a a fee or invoice, as here,-- "half base point" invoice --- gets no google hits, whilst-- "half basis point" invoice-- gets 40 hits; similarly, -- "half base point" fee-- gets only 5 hits, whilst -- "half basis point" fee -- gets 168 hits. Online glossaries confirm this. "Basis point" appears to be preferable to "base point".
Example sentence:
A basis point is one one-hundredth of a percent. For example, a 150 basis point rise in interest rates is the same as a 1.5% rise. A 10 basis point fee is the same as a 0.1% fee.
The annual fee is 10 basis points or 1/10th of 1% of the amount of the outstanding bonds, so they have not been able to pay the fee for -- for five years and it has -- the unpaid fee is currently $86,510.
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Vania de Souza
Works in field
40 years translating
Native in: Portuguese 
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese, French to English, and 5 more.
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