尽管联邦基金利率目标已经远低于去年夏天的5.25%，按揭利率却依旧居高不下(见图2)。
Although the federal funds rate target is far below the 5.25% of last summer, mortgage rates are only a little lower (see chart 2).
美联储直到1995年才开始公布其联邦基金利率目标，此前市场人士只能自己分析猜测。
Until 1995 the Federal Reserve did not even publish its target for the federal-funds rate: people in the markets had to work things out for themselves.
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。
Federal Reserve policy makers meet on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss their target for the federal funds rate, which broadly influences borrowing costs.
和过去的衰退进行比较有些复杂，因为美联储并不总是采用联邦基金利率作为目标，且容易出现更大的波动。
Comparing that to past recessions is a bit tricky, because the fed did not always use the federal funds rate as a target, and it tended to be more volatile.
美联储委员会于周二下调了联邦基金目标利率至4.75％ 。
On Tuesday the committee lowered its target for the federal funds rate to four and three-quarters percent.
期货市场预计美联储最晚将在11月会议之前把联邦基金目标贷款利率从当前近乎为零的水平提高至0.5%。
Futures markets expect the central bank to raise its target federal-funds lending rate to 0.5% by its November meeting, if not sooner, from current near-zero levels.
但该利率与美国联邦基金目标利率之间的息差仍位于历史高点附近。
But the difference between the rate and rates on U.S. federal-funds target rate remains near all-time highs.
第一步：宣布目标——将实际联邦基金利率回调至其长期平均利率2%。
Step one: announce a target of restoring the real federal funds rate back to its long-term average of 2 per cent.
本周Lacker说”金融市场内部及自身波动，并不要求改变联邦基金利率的目标值。
“Financial-market volatility, in and of itself, does not require a change in the target federal funds rate, ” said Mr Lacker this week.
根据英国《金融时报》调查，美联储联邦基金利率的目标区间在2017年底将达到1%至1.25%。
According to the FT survey, the target range for the Fed's funds rate will end 2017 at 1 per cent to 1.25 per cent.
由于联邦基金利率目前已降至1%，并在大多数时间里低于这一水平，目标利率已经逼近了零位。
With the fed funds rate now targeted at 1%, and on most days trading below that, the target rate is already near the zero-bound.
但该利率与美国联邦基金目标利率之间的息差仍位于历史高点附近。
But the difference between the rate and rates on U. s. federal-funds target rate remains near all-time highs.
但该利率与美国联邦基金目标利率之间的息差仍位于历史高点附近。
But the difference between the rate and rates on U. s. federal-funds target rate remains near all-time highs.
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