basis point

English

Noun

basis point (plural basis points)

1. (finance) One hundredth of one percentage point.
   • 2022 June 16, Swati Bhat, “India's economic prospects firm despite global headwinds, says RBI”, in Gareth Jones, editor, Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 June 2022, Macro Matters:

     The RBI this month raised rates by 50 basis points after a 40 bps hike in May.

   • 2025 April 11, Laurent Belsie, “Tariff chaos tests the status of Treasury bonds as a haven of safety”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎^[2], Boston, Massachusetts: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 April 2025:

     Triggered by a sell-off of Treasury bonds, the 10-year bond yield jumped by 17.2 basis points, briefly hitting 4.5%, the biggest hike in a year. The 30-year yield rose by 20 basis points, a one-day hike not seen since 2020, when pandemic panic set in.

Synonyms

• permyriad (‱)

Translations

one hundredth of one percentage point

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基點 / 基点 (zh) (jīdiǎn)

• Dutch: basispunt (nl) n
• Finnish: korkopiste (fi), peruspiste
• French: point de base (fr) m
• German: Basispunkt (de) m
• Hungarian: bázispont (hu)
• Icelandic: punktur (is) m
• Indonesian: basis poin
• Japanese: ベーシスポイント (bēshisu pointo)
• Malay: mata asas
• Polish: punkt bazowy (pl) m
• Spanish: punto base m, punto básico m
• Swedish: punkt (sv) c

See also

• percentage point