With the target for the key U.S. interest rate now between 0% and 0.25%, the dollar tumbled against the euro, the British pound and the Japanese yen.

美国基准利率目前已经介于0%-0.25%之间，美元兑欧元、英镑和日圆大幅下挫。

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In the U.K., inflation fell to a seven-year low in September, sending the pound lower amid expectations that the Bank of England will keep interest rates low for a while.

英国9月份的通货膨胀率降到了七年低点，因市场猜测英国央行(Bank of England)将把利率维持于地位，英镑汇率进一步走低。

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If we cut interest rates, the pound would dive.

如果我们降低利率，英镑就会大幅贬值。

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The Bank of England thinks that a strong pound is no reason to leave interest rates unchanged.

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Yet some of the recently announced redundancies, at British Steel, for example, and at Vickers, a defence company, are signs that the high pound and the past year's increases in interest rates are beginning to take their long-forecast toll on manufacturing industry.

ECONOMIST: The economy

Since Paul Volcker ratcheted U.S. interest rates above 20% in the early 1980s to pound inflation below 10%, governments have kept up the pressure on prices.

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