I'm looking for the highest rate possible on a short-term certificate of deposit account.

我正在寻找短期存款帐户的最高利率。

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Laughter produces short-term changes in the function of the heart and blood circulation, increasing heart rate and oxygen consumption.

笑会造成心脏和血液循环功能的短期变化，增加心率和耗氧量。

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Many consumer loan rates, however, are pegged to banks' prime rate. That rate, in turn, is tied to the Federal Reserve's benchmark short-term rate, which remains near zero.

然而很多消费者贷款利率是与银行的优惠利率挂钩，这优惠利率又是紧盯美联储的短期基准利率，这一利率持续接近于0。

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If the Fed wants to push the Federal Funds Rate up and down it goes and buys short-term government bonds.

如果联邦希望推动,联邦资金利率上升下降,它将会去买短期的政府债券。

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And the Fed would face the delicate job if explaining to market traders that the short term rate they had been plugging into all their algorithms was variable, after all.

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An accommodative monetary policy would involve keeping the fed funds rate (the short-term rate at which banks lend to each other) at historic lows so as to encourage consumption and provide cheaper credit to consumers and businesses.

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The slope of the yield curve can be measured in varying ways but is conventionally thought of as the long-term government bond rate minus the short-term government bond rate.

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