The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by half a point.

联邦储备委员会将利率降低了0.5个百分点。

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Many business groups have been pressing the Federal Reserve to loosen interest rates.

许多商业团体一直在施加压力要求联邦储备局放宽利率。

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The Federal Reserve Board is expected to raise interest rates.

联邦储备委员会预计将增加利率。

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The Federal Reserve suggested again that short-term interest rates are likely to remain near zero for some time.

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In response to the subprime crisis that we are now in, our central bank, the Federal Reserve, has been cutting interest rates aggressively to try to save the economy that appears to be declining.

为了积极应对,目前的次贷危机,我们的中央银行,也就是美联储,已经调低利率,来积极地拯救正在衰退的经济

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Central banks around this time I think it was under the leadership of Paul Volker who was the Federal Reserve Chairman they raised interest rates to kill inflation and they threw the world into a huge recession.

在这个时期，中央银行,我认为正处于保罗？沃尔克的领导之下,保罗是美联储的主席,他们提升了利率来抵制通货膨胀,然而却将整个世界都卷入了一场巨大的经济衰退。

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Even if our balance sheet stays large for a while, we have two broad means of tightening monetary policy at the appropriate time: paying interest on reserve balances and taking various actions that reduce the stock of reserves.

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The Dow Jones Industrials, anticipating a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike on Feb. 2, plunged 289 points, or nearly 3%.

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Moreover, they should compete to borrow any funds that are offered in private markets at rates below the interest rate on reserve balances because, by so doing, they can earn a spread without risk.

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