Futures markets are pricing in high odds of a federal-funds rate of 0.5% by November, up from near zero now.

期货市场以很高的概率预期，到今年11月份，联邦基金利率将从当前接近于零的水平提升到0.5%。

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The odds are high it will also cut its short-term interest rate, now 2%, to 1.5% either at or before its policy meeting at the end of October.

美联储在十月底的政策会上或之前，下调短期利率（从现在的2％调至1.5％）的可能性很高。

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With an accuracy rate of 75 percent, it's not perfect -- but those are better odds than blind guessing gets you. bing.com/travel.

尽管它并不完美，只有75%的准确率，但也要比你盲目的估计靠谱得多。

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But I rate the odds on this optimistic scenario at no better than 1-in-3.

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If you both have good to excellent credit, that will go a long way to improve your approval odds and the likelihood of landing the lowest interest rate and saving the most money.

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