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Recent Examples on the Web Taiwan's central bank raised its benchmark discount rate by 12.5 basis points to 1.5% and lowered its economic growth outlook for the year. — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 16 June 2022 Saba's choice of discount rate was a major point of contention. — Ryan Finley, Forbes, 26 May 2022 The Cowen analysts used a discount rate of 10% to compute the present value of their free cash flow forecasts for Amazon. — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021 In turn, that hurt tech stocks whose future cash flows are worth less in today’s terms when a higher discount rate is applied. — Caitlin Mccabe, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022 Depending on the discount rate of your future earnings, is that probabilistic money better kept as future earnings (yielding nothing), or invested in a solar array in Ghana? — Matthew Harris, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021 One approach involves adjusting the discount rate, or weighted average cost of capital. — Lindsay Patrick, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2022 New York state uses a 2% discount rate to produce its current social cost of carbon of $125 per ton. — Jim Krane, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2022 But most of the time there is a tighter focus on the outlook for earnings and the discount rate. — James Mackintosh, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022 See More

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