They were expecting a quarter-point rate increase.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Fed Raises Interest Rates a Quarter Point - March 21, 2000] Reference

They had been betting on a quarter-point cut next hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2007] Reference

In winter, banks may drop interest rates by a quarter-point.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2005] Reference

HSBC expects five quarter-point rate increases by the end of 2011.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stocks Fall Across Asia] Reference

Most people expecting one more, at least, quarter-point rate hike.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 9, 2006] Reference

Wall Street pretty much widely expecting another quarter-point hike.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2006] Reference

Many economists, however, still expect a quarter-point cut by December.    From Wordnik.com.  [Euro Zone Shows Strength] Reference

Many analysts expect more quarter-point hikes until rates hit 3.5 to 4 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2005] Reference

The market had been pricing in one quarter-point rate increase early next year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half-Baked Plan Isn't the Recipe] Reference

The Fed is widely expected Wednesday to deliver a quarter-point rate cut, to 2%.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Treasury prices climb] Reference

He predicts a quarter-point rate cut in November and a recession in the second half.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bleak Economic Signs Spread in Europe] Reference

Last week's quarter-point cut in short-term interest rates made a bad situation worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Better Bets For Safe Cash] Reference

The decision was expected and marks the fifth consecutive quarter-point rise since May.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indonesia Raises Interest Rate] Reference

First of all, what do you think the Fed is going to do, quarter-point cut, half-point cut?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2007] Reference

I think the odds now are in favor of another quarter-point move when they meet again in May.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Fed Raises Interest Rates a Quarter Point - March 21, 2000] Reference

When they keep doing these quarter-point increases, the market goes up and people get happy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Fed Raises Key Interest Rate a Half Point to 6.5 Percent - May 16, 2000] Reference

The ECB is expected to raise rates by a quarter-point to 4.25%, the first move since June 2007.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Shake-Up Give] Reference

It slashed the rate to 2.5% from 3.25%, keeping it a quarter-point above the federal-funds rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Credit Worries Ease as Fed] Reference

Investors and many economists now judge a quarter-point rise to 4.25% next month as a certainty.    From Wordnik.com.  [ECB Affirms Possibility of Rate Increase] Reference

The Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate a quarter-point, despite weak job growth in July.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2004] Reference

The Federal Reserve raising interest rates, another quarter-point to 3.25 percent on the fed funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2005] Reference

Of those expecting a reduction, 14 predicted a quarter-point drop, and five forecast a half-point cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [BOE Rate Cut Now Predicted] Reference

European indexes rallied on comments from the ECB's president following the quarter-point rate increase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shares Gain as ECB Raises Key Rate] Reference

Wall Street widely waiting for widely what's expected to be another 16th quarter-point interest rate hike.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 10, 2006] Reference

The ECB spooked markets last month by telegraphing a quarter-point rate rise, which is now all but certain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The ECB's Lonely Fight] Reference

Greenspan's successor Ben Bernanke has come out and cut another quarter-point off, expect the trend to continue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Thill: Why We Are Totally Screwed] Reference

U.S. futures markets put high odds of at least a quarter-point interest-rate cut by the Fed at its next meeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slowing Inflation Opens the Door] Reference

Chairman Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve announced another quarter-point hike in short-term interest rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2005] Reference

On Monday, futures markets put the likelihood of a quarter-point rate increase at the Fed's August meeting at 90%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fed Mood Tilts Away] Reference

U.S. interest-rate futures were pricing in a roughly 48% chance the Fed would raise rates a quarter-point in August.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dollar retreats] Reference

Lastly, the worst-case scenario: the quarter-point drop reserves as much ammo in the Fed's monetary locker as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Setting Sail Again Soon?] Reference

Alan Greenspan and company raising the fed funds rate to 3 percent, up a quarter-point, the 8th increase since last June.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 4, 2005] Reference

Just four of its 12 regional banks requested the accompanying, quarter-point cut in the discount rate, to 2.25% from 2.5%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fed Cuts Key Rate, Signals a Pause] Reference

ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet told legislators Friday that the bank's main refinancing interest rate may go up a quarter-point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oil's Latest Record: $140.21] Reference

Well, the Federal Reserve meets tomorrow in Washington, and Wall Street is expecting an interest rate cut of at least a quarter-point.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2001] Reference

I tried phoning Alan Greenspan before the Federal Reserve announced its quarter-point rate cut today, but it seems his number is unlisted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patti Davis's Prescription] Reference

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: The Fed delivers and the markets say, humbug, no love on Wall Street for a quarter-point cut in interest rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2007] Reference

And by leaving rates alone for the last two years -- except for one quarter-point rise -- he's virtually guaranteed that any rate uptick will reverberate worldwide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bubble Trouble?] Reference