1·French 10-year yields have come under pressure, rising to 3.46 per cent, a 38 basis point increase since the start of the week.
近日法国10年期国债收益率面临上行压力,已升至3.46%,自周一以来已上升38个基点。
2·A basis point is 0.01 percentage point.
一个基点等于0.01个百分点。
3·Each basis point might not seem much, but multiplied across the billions in contracts it soon adds up to a pretty big number.
每个基点可能看起来不多,但是乘上数十亿的合约之后很快就会变成一个相当可观的数字。
4·All they needed to do was ask for a fraction of that what bond traders would call a quarter of a basis point.
他们需要做的只是从中索取极小的一部分,也就是债券交易者所说的四分之一个基点。