Fed Skips Rate Increase, Ending Two-Year Run as Economy Slows

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FED 不加息。[size=5/code][color=red/code]The Federal Reserve kept the benchmark U.S. interest rate at 5.25 percent, ending a record two-year run of increases while leaving room for further moves should higher inflation persist.
``Some inflation risks remain,'' the Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement after meeting today in Washington. ``The extent and timing of any additional firming that may be needed to address these risks will depend on the evolution of the outlook for both inflation and economic growth, as implied by incoming information.''
In their toughest decision since Chairman Ben S. Bernanke took the Fed's helm in February, central bankers are counting on economic growth slowing enough to damp a pickup in prices. If they make the wrong call, policy makers may have to clamp down harder in coming months and risk sing the expansion. St. Louis Fed President William Poole said last week he was ``50- 50'' about whether to keep lifting borrowing costs.

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不加息,FED表示核心通膨憂慮處於高位，但隨著時間推進通膨壓力可能減緩,代表什么?上升有压力?