Many now expect the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.

现在，很多人希望美联储能调低利率。

Fed officials expect to shift from raising to cutting rates in 2024 and 2025.

美联储官员预计在2024年和2025年从加息转向降息。

It cut the death rate from the disease from seventy percent to about one percent.

它把死亡这种疾病的比率从70%降低到1%左右。

The US Fed cut interest rates to almost zero.

美联储利率降至近零。

Gelsenkirchen is gamely trying new things, and has cut its jobless rate from still-higher levels.

盖尔森基兴采取了进取型的策，减了失业率（虽然依然很高）。

The United States Federal Reserve, the country's central bank, cut a key interest rate yesterday.

美国央行美联储昨天下调基准利率。

So it cut interest rates by another full percentage point to 15 per cent.

它又利率降低了整整一个百分点至15%。

Cutting interest rates, how is that supposed to help the economy in this specific situation?

在这种特殊情况下，降息要如何帮助经济？

The US Federal Reserve cut short-term interest rates to almost zero a few years ago.

年前，美联储短期利率降低至接近零的水平。

Some experts expect the central bank to cut its interest rates several times this year.

一些专家预计，央行今年多次降息。

That suggests they are unlikely to cut rates now.

那意味着银行不想马上下调利率。

Jerome Powell, the Fed's chair, portrayed the rate cut as a recalibration of monetary policy in line with a lessening of inflation risks and an increase in unemployment risks.

美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔降息描述为货币政策的重新调整，使货币政策与通胀风险的降低和失业风险的增加相一致。

Even as many emerging-market central banks have begun to cut rates, taking their cue from the Federal Reserve, investors expect more monetary tightening in Brazil over the coming year.

即使许多新兴市场央行已效仿美联储，开始降息，但投资者预计巴西在未来一年继续收紧货币。

Analysts, nevertheless, said it was a foregone conclusion for the Fed to cut rates on Wednesday, either 25 basis points or 50bp, as US inflation has eased while the labor market softened.

然而，分析师们表示，由于劳动力市场出现软化，美国通胀有所缓解，美联储在18日降息25或50个基准点是意料之中的。

The Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank want economic growth and a small amount of inflation, so they have cut their interest rates to below zero.

日本央行和欧洲央行希望维持经济增长和小幅通胀，因此利率降为负利率。

" Overall, we are looking at what is still a very strong labour market, " said Jerome Powell, the Fed's chairman, explaining why officials have so far demurred from cutting rates.

“总体而言，我们看到的仍然是一个非常强劲的劳动力市场。”美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔在解释官员们目前为何不愿降息时说。

Job growth dropping off more than expected in recent months is something the Federal Reserve will be watching closely as it weighs interest rate cuts, a key factor for inflation.

美国联邦储备委员会密切关注最近个月就业增长降幅超过预期的情况，因为他们正在考虑降息问题，这也是影响通胀的一个关键因素。

Starting with the stockmarket crash in 1987 and continuing for more than three decades, the Fed earned a reputation for easing policy, notably by cutting interest rates, whenever share prices plunged.

1987年股市崩盘后的30多年里，美联储以实施宽松政策而闻名，尤其是股价一暴跌就实施的降息政策。

In his first testimony to Congress since Mr Trump's return to the White House, Jerome Powell, the Fed's chairman, said he was in " no rush" to cut rates again.

自特朗普重返白宫后，美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔首次向国会作证时表示，他“不急于”再次降息。

2 of the major U.S. stock indices have closed at record highs as markets reflect on the Federal Reserve cutting the official interest rates on Wednesday.

美联储周三下调官方利率一举在市场上有了体现，美国两大股指收盘创下历史新高。