Fixed asset investment across the country totaled 17.23 trillion yuan, up 25.5%. Domestic demand, particularly consumer demand, played a greater role in boosting economic growth.

全社会固定资产投资总额17.23万亿元，增长25.5%，国内需求特别是消费需求对经济增长的拉动作用增强。

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Nature has decreed that the supply of water is fixed. Meanwhile demand rises inexorably as the world's population increases and enriches itself.

自然界规定了谁的储量是固定的，与此同时，伴随着世界人口的的急剧增加，水的需求量也就不可避免的迅猛增长。

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As Bloomberg's Caroline Baum wrote in January: "The demand curve is downward sloping." What that means is demand for any good or service isn't fixed.

布隆·伯格的Caroline Baum在一月份写到，“需求曲线倾斜向下，意味着任何商品或服务的需求都是不固定的，它依赖于价格。”

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But with the Bank rate unlikely or unable to fall further, new home loan demand is shifting back to fixed-rate deals, rather than mortgages which track the Bank rate.

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Demand for fixed income was also buoyed by a ZEW report showing that forward-looking sentiment among investors slipped in its April reading coming in at 7.6 after 14.1.

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That manipulated, pegged, or fixed-rate system worked well in the early postwar years when there was apparently an unlimited demand for dollar reserves, which we were happy to provide to the world in the form of external deficits.

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