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Originally Posted by bizaro86
So basically TD wanted to get out ahead of not cutting this time, but by cutting 10 bps this time it makes prime a "round" quarter point number again. Assuming all banks follow suit, it looks like they've just expanded their margins by 0.25% on a permanent basis in the last 6 months, by passing on only 0.25% of a 0.5% rate cut.
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Does anyone else benefit from prime going up? I have a stock that pays dividends based on a multiple of prime (linked to TD I think) so when prime goes up so does the dividend.