美联储即美国的中央银行,说至少到2014年底,基准利率将保持极低水平。该行的主要政策制定委员会在一份申明中预测,经济将较小幅度增长,通货膨胀和失业率将逐渐下降。美联储主席本·伯南克宣读了该申明。
“To support of a stronger economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation over time is at levels consistent with our statue of mandate. The committee expects to maintain a highly accommodative stance for monetary policy. And particularly, the committee decided to keep the target range for the federal fund rate 0-0.25%, and currently anticipates economic conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels for the federal fund’s rate at least until late 2014.”
支持更加强劲的经济复苏进程和帮助确保长期内通胀水平的措施符合美联储的使命。该委员会预计将维持高度宽松的货币政策。尤其是,委员会决定将联邦基金利率维持在0-0.25%,目前预测,当前的经济状况需要将较低水平的联邦基金利率至少维持到2014年底。
The same elite unit of US special force that killed Osama Ben Laden last year has successfully rescued two western aid workers kidnapped by pirates in Somalia. Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted were abducted on October while working for a Danish demining organization. Here is our security correspondent, Frend Governor.