This year's rise, an average of 2.7 percent, may be a fraction lower than last year's, but it is still well above the official Consumer Price Index (CPI) measure of inflation.

今年的平均涨幅为2.7%，虽然可能略低于去年，但仍远高于官方的消费者价格指数（CPI）所反映的通胀水平。

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Traders snapped up safe-haven Treasurys, pushing yields ever lower. And a key measure of volatility and investor fears spiked.

商品和欧元暴跌,交易者抢购安全的国债，促使收益越来越低，一个衡量市场波动和投资者的恐慎程度的关键指标受挫。

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The Vix, or volatility index, a measure of market preparedness for shocks, has been lower than in past peaks-though it shot up on September 17th.

衡量市场对意外冲击是否有所准备的波动指数VIX尽管在9月17日暴涨，仍然低于之前的峰值。

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The further education staff say they are striking because of the government's support for the principles laid out in the Hutton report on public sector pensions - raising contributions, moving to a career average scheme, and linking pension rises to the lower measure of inflation, CPI.

BBC: UK lecturers' strike over pensions disrupts students

Separate reforms to force millions of public sector workers to pay an additional 3.2% of salaries towards their pensions and to switch the uprating of pensions from RPI inflation to the normally lower CPI measure of inflation are expected to significantly reduce the long-term cost of public-sector pensions.

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Ministers plan to link public sector pension rises to an alternative, and historically lower, inflation measure.

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