美联储将持续低利率到2013年中

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美联储星期二宣布，将保持接近于0的低利率到2013年中，来支持停滞的经济。同时宣布没有新的刺激经济增长的计划。

3 @  {6 Y) t+ s. x& n8 k5 f5 b美联储说，在下一个季度里，经济将会缓慢的恢复，失业率将逐渐的下降。

物价和工资膨胀是美联储的主要关心。根据法律，美联储的主要责任是保持低物价和低失业率。 美联储主席Mr. Bernanke 认为，现在2% 稳定的年通货膨胀率，是持久的job 增长的最好的环境。

; Q: w# J  \" d: x; ~WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that it will hold short-term interest rates near zero through mid-2013 to support the faltering economy, but it announced no new measures to further reduce long-term interest rates or otherwise stimulate renewed growth.
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The Fed’s policy-making board said in a statement that growth “has been considerably slower” than it had expected, and that it saw little prospect for rapid improvement, prompting the change in policy. It had previously said that it would maintain rates near zero “for an extended period.”
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“The committee now expects a somewhat slower pace of recovery over the coming quarters,” the Fed’s statement said. “The unemployment rate will decline only gradually.”
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The Fed’s announcement was eagerly awaited by investors who have responded to grim economic tidings in recent weeks by driving down global markets.

The economy grew only 0.8 percent during the first half of the year. The work force is shrinking. State and local governments are cutting back. And fiscal policy is immobilized by partisanship, leading Standard & Poor’s to remove the United States from its list of risk-free borrowers.

That has left investors to hope that the Fed would consider new steps to help the economy.

Mr. Bernanke said last month that the Fed was “prepared to take further steps if needed,” but he made clear that the central bank was reluctant to do so. He said the Fed would act only if growth continued to falter and, importantly, only if price increases slowed, stopped or reversed.

The inflation of prices and wages is the Fed’s primary concern. By law the Fed is responsible for keeping prices steady and unemployment as low as possible. But Mr. Bernanke, like his predecessors, places greater emphasis on prices, in part because the Fed has concluded that slow, steady inflation — about 2 percent a year — is the best atmosphere for enduring job growth.

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