It was the latest in a series of increases to rates, and the bank surprised some economists by announcing the rate increase on the last day of the Lunar New Year holiday.

这是一系列提高利率举措中的最新一次。人民银行在农历新年节日最后一天宣布上调利率使一些经济学家感到意外。

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Economists say the inflation rate will likely increase in the coming months, reducing the room for the central bank to cut interest rates to spur economic growth.

经济学家表示，通货膨胀率在今后几个月可能还会上升，从而减少了中央银行通过削减利率来刺激经济增长的空间。

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This makes it much less likely that the Fed would engage in further QE, and indeed both the Bank of England and the ECB are now considering an increase in their policy rate.

这种形势下，美联储进一步推进量化宽松的可能性微乎其微，英格兰银行与欧洲央行倒是正在考虑上调他们的政策利率。

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With the increase in the European Central Bank's key interest rate to 4.0% from 3.75% a foregone conclusion, investors were far more attentive to the degree of hawkishness in comments by Jean-Claude Trichet, the ECB president.

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This could encourage workers to pass up potential job opportunities. (It could also encourage people to register as unemployed, without affecting underlying labour supply.) Most studies suggest that the extensions can be blamed for an increase in the unemployment rate of about a percentage point, although a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco says the effect is much smaller, just 0.4 percentage points.

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Despite the tougher language on inflation in the last statement, investors and economists are unconvinced that the bank is seriously considering a rate increase.

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