The Federal Reserve again kept interest rates near zero for an "extended period", but its accompanying language on the economy was markedly less optimistic than in recent months.

美联储又将在更长一段时间内将利率控制在零附近，但是关于经济的一些评论明显没有前几个月乐观。

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Meanwhile, financial deregulation means it takes longer for the Federal Reserve to slow the economy with higher interest rates.

同时，金融管制放松了，这使美联储要花较长的时间加高利息，使经济降温。

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The central bank last year cut interest rates and raised reserve requirements for foreign and local Banks in an unorthodox attempt to deter rising capital inflows.

去年，土耳其央行为了阻止不断增加的资本流入，采取了非常规手段实施了降息以及提高了针对外国与本国银行的准备金要求。

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

VOA: special.2009.01.31

Like the Bank of England, the U.S.Federal Reserve has all but exhausted one of its most powerful tools for stimulating the economy -- lowering the key interest rate that banks charge to lend to each other.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

For that, thanks goes mostly to Alan Greenspan and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve, for slashing interest rates to the bone and saying that they will keep them there.

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He placed the most blame on the Federal Reserve Board for raising interest rates.

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