When a company decides it needs long-term funds by marketing stocks and bonds, it must find people to buy them.

当一家公司决定通过销售股票和债券来筹措长期资金，它必须找到买主。

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One of the main functions of commerce Banks is to provide short-term funds to the production and circulation of commodities.

商业银行的主要职能之一是为商品的生产与流通提供短期资金。

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Negotiable certificates of deposit NCDS complement the interbank market by channelling longer term funds.

可转让存款证与银行同业市场相辅相成，中转长期资金。

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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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The Federal Funds Rate was 5.5% and then the whole term structure -all the way--almost all the way.

联邦基金利率是5.5%,整个期限结构图,几乎自始至终...

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Look how--this is as of earlier this year; the Federal Funds Rate was at around 4% and it has this huge drop in the term structure and then it starts the upward-sloping.

这是今年早些时候的图形,当时联邦利率徘徊在4%,但期限结构,在此处急转直下之后又开始掉头向上

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Say no if you're inclined to plunk your entire bond allocation into long-term funds because they have the highest yield.

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