Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BASE POINT (OR BASIS POINT)
  
  One one-hundreth of one percent ( 1/100 % or 0.01 percent). Thus 25 basis points equal one-quarter of one percent, 100 basis points equal one percent. This is typical in-group, professional bond talk.
  
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