Federal Reserve policy makers meet on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss their target for the federal funds rate, which broadly influences borrowing costs.

美联储决策者本周二和周三将开会讨论联邦基金利率目标，该利率对借贷成本存在普遍影响。

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A low federal funds rate helps limit returns in the bond market.

联邦基金的低利率有利于限制债券市场的收益率。

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In 2003 they decided to change that and they decided to raise the discount rate above the Federal Funds rate.

在2003年，他们决定改变这个现状，并且决定将贴现率提升到，联邦资金利率之上。

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"The committee continues to anticipate that the economic conditions -- including low rates of resource utilization, subdued inflation trends and stable inflation expectations -- are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate for an extended period."

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If the Fed wants to push the Federal Funds Rate up and down it goes and buys short-term government bonds.

如果联邦希望推动,联邦资金利率上升下降,它将会去买短期的政府债券。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The Federal Funds Rate was 5.5% and then the whole term structure -all the way--almost all the way.

联邦基金利率是5.5%,整个期限结构图,几乎自始至终...

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In 2003, the federal-funds rate hit 40-year lows of 1.25%.

WSJ: How Government Stoked the Mania

That was the meaning of the announcement of the US Federal Reserve that it anticipates holding its official interest rate, the so-called federal funds rate, at exceptionally low levels "at least" through mid-2013.

BBC: America's five-year downturn

For now, Federal Reserve policy-setters have indicated that they envision the federal-funds rate remaining at extremely low levels until late 2014.

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