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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hairybadger" data-source="post: 978633" data-attributes="member: 389459"><p>There is possibly something being lost in translation. Financial language quite often uses "basis points", 100 basis points being 1%, so when they say "half of 1%" what they really want to say is "50 basis points" but they're making the language more clear for the general consumer, the subsequent jump to "half of one percent" being a logical jump too far <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" data-shortname=":)" /> Or maybe it's just a conspiracy to annoy Yorkshiremen <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>