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The federal funds rate will remain stagnant again after the Federal Reserve wrapped up their mid-June meeting.
六月中旬例会结束后，美联储宣布联邦基金利率不变ekd!a2ALGE6!。
According to the Federal Open Market Committee, chaired by Janet Yellen,
据联邦公开市场委员会主席耶伦表示，
slow economic growth led them to leave the interest rate standing between one-quarter and one-half of a percent.
由于经济增速放缓，利率保持在0.25%-0.5%之间_4X2+9F[kE。

Expected to remain flat until 2018, the economic news has also led the Fed to reduce their own interest-rate projections for the next two years.
到2018年之前，预计经济走势继续低迷，所以在未来两年，美联储的利率预期也将下降[SHlW!^8nQm;Qq)5VG。
Expectations for a rate increase fell after the release of May's job report.
五月份就业市场报告公布后，利率下降预期不胫而走,RYD^[N~;+2rL。
The Department of Labor noted that the U.S. economy only added 38,000 jobs, a second consecutive month of disappointing figures.
劳工部表示，美国只新增3.8万个工作岗位，接连两个月不景气;A+XtC9W~ms5MrLo。

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词语解释

1.interest rate 利率

例句：The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by half a point.
联邦储备委员会将利率降低了0.5个百分点++MYR(;oqSpk%z~s(n。

2.funds rate 基金利率

例句：The Effect on Chinese and Japanese Economic of Federal Funds Rate
联邦基金利率对中国和日本经济的影响性研究

3.lead to 导致

例句：Heart failure led to her father's death.
心力衰竭导致她父亲的死亡vCEYdUeGQV0&k。

4.Department of Labor 劳工部

例句：I am a federal employee. I work for the Department of labor.
我是联邦政府的雇员，我在劳动部工作YbXchWD.D1~geSLq。