JUDY WOODRUFF: After years of holding interest rates at near zero level, the Federal Reserve has entered a new phase, where short-term rates may be rising with greater regularity, as they did again today. Jeffrey Brown looks at how the Fed has change

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Are US Central Bank Officials Signaling Imminent Rate Hike? 美国央行官员们即将加息吗? Members of the U.S. Federal Reserve may be bracing financial markets for a possible rate hike, and the indications are it could happen soon. The Feds

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US Move to Raise Interest Rates Could Have a Big Effect The United States central bank raised its main interest rate Wednesday for the third time this year. The rate increase could affect not only the U.S. economy, but economies around the world. Exp

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模仿句子:And there's clearly nervousness in Germany too cos they get to see exports down 10% for Germany. 翻译:德国有一种明显的焦虑情绪。他们的出口居然降了10%。

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一.本课要点及示例 在这一课里, 我们要学习以 that, t-h-a-t, that, which, w-h-i-c-h, which 和 who,w-h-o, who 开头的短句. 这种短句在整个句子里有修饰的功用. 首先我们还是听一段对话, 内容是说彼得和玛

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The prospect of an early US interest-rate increase diminished further yesterday as Janet Yellen advocated caution given unfavourable market conditions, weaker than expected overseas growth and an uncertain inflation outlook. 美国加息前景昨日进

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. job market improved significantly in October, adding catalyst for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in December. The unemployment rate fell to five percent in October from 5.1 percent in the previous

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One of the Federal Reserves rate-setters has described the case for a further increase in short-term interest rates as compelling, arguing that the trends for employment and inflation are in the right direction. 美联储(Fed)利率制定者之一称,

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The prospects of a Federal Reserve interest rate rise this month receded further yesterday after a senior policymaker set out a series of arguments for not rushing into an increase. 美联储(Federal Reserve)本月加息的可能性昨日进一步减小

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(31) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

A continued strengthening in US economic data could clear the way for a second increase in short-term interest rates fairly soon, a senior Federal Reserve policymaker has said, as speculation intensifies about the outcome of this summers rate-setting

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The US is on the verge of meeting most of the economic conditions the Federal Reserve has set to increase interest rates next month, according to a member of the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee. 负责制定利率的联邦公开市场委员会

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The US Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged last Wednesday in its last monetary policy decision before the US election, but signaled it could hike in December as the economy gathers momentum and inflation picks up. 美国联邦储备局上周三

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今天我们要学的词是tumble。 Tumble, 做为动词,有大幅下降的意思。美国电器店百思买11月结束的财政季度销售表现低迷。 Best Buy stocks tumbled 14% on the newly released data, 新公布的数字使百思买的股价

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WASHINGTON, March 27 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Friday that she expected an increase in the target range for the federal funds rate to be warranted later this year, and the pace for the rate hike would likely be grad

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Janet Yellen will deliver the biggest shock to markets since taking over as chair of the Federal Reserve should the central bank raise interest rates this month, according to a survey of Wall Street economists that shows more than 85 per cent expect

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday decided to raise benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points, the first interest rate increase since 2006,marking the end of an era of extraordinary easing monetary policy. Given the co

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WASHINGTON, June 17 (Xinhua) -- The Federal Reserve signaled that it was on track to move the benchmark interest rate this year despite the lower-than-expected economic outlook. In its quarterly economic projections, 15 out of the 17 Fed board member

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The Labor Department said that employers added just 38,000 jobs last month, the fewest since September 2010. The jobless rate fell to 4.7% from 5%, the lowest since November 2007. 据美国劳工部日前透露,美国上月只新增了38000个工作岗

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For the second year running, the US Federal Reserve has rudely interrupted the Chinese Communist partys annual economic planning meeting, which ends today. 美联储(Fed)连续第二年不客气地打断中国共产党的年度经济规划会议。今年

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模仿句子:Well I suppose it was good news alas. We've actually finally had this decision we thought it was gonna happen a few months ago. We'd been led by Ms Yellen into the idea that it was gonna happen and then we got actually misled because s

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