The result would be an even weaker dollar and increased long-term interest rates.

结果将早就一个更加疲软的美元，增加长期利率。

The red line is long-term interest rates, but I won't talk more about that right now.

红色的线是长期利率,这节课不会谈论

The purchases are meant to drive down long-term interest rates, and at first they did.

联储意在以大收购来压低长期利率，起初也确实做到了。

And if necessary, it could sell some of its bonds, which would push up long-term interest rates.

如果还需要，联储可以卖掉一些它的债权，这样可以维持长期利率高位。

Of course, the short-term interest rate isn't the cost of capital; the long-term interest rate is.

当然，短期利率不是资金成本；长期利率才是。

Such expectations have the potential to decouple the link between short- and long-term interest rates.

这种预期有可能使短期利率与长期利率之间的关联脱钩。

The Fed believes the earlier assets purchases worked, insofar as they lowered long-term interest rates.

美联储相信，就降低长期利率而言，前两轮资产购买行动起到了作用。

QE stimulates demand in two ways. First, it lowers long-term interest rates, which encourages borrowing.

量化宽松政策刺激了两方面的需求：首先，降低了长期利率，刺激借贷。

Those purchases pushed down long-term interest rates, helping to stoke a boom in private and public credit.

那些购买降低了长期利率，帮助刺激了私人部门和公共部门的信贷热。

Such a loss of confidence might then undermine inflationary expectations and raise long-term interest rates.

人们丧失对英镑的信心，可能削弱通胀预期，并推高长期利率。

Next month, its shares join a revamped Straits Times Index, which could boost long-term interest in the company.

而该公司股票下个月还将成为新版海峡时报指数的成份股，其长期投资价值将因此得到进一步提升。

Facts have proven that bilateral friendly cooperation conforms to the fundamental, long-term interest of both peoples.

事实证明，中多友好合作符合两国人民的根本和长远利益。

The Fed is now trying to push down long-term interest rates by buying mortgage-backed and perhaps Treasury securities.

美联储正试图通过购买按揭债券或者再加上国债，来推低长期利率。

Begin with the fact that both the Fed and the markets have an overwhelming long-term interest in risk being priced correctly.

让我们从这样一个事实开始：美联储和市场都对被正确定价了的风险有一种先入为主且根深蒂固的兴趣。

By buying Treasury securities, the Fed aims to lower long-term interest rates and increase expectations of future inflation.

美联储购买国库券旨在降低长期利率和提高未来的通胀预期。

And it was a step that I'd had a long-term interest in the idea that the brain can store random associations between things.

它是我对大脑能够容纳事物间随机关联这个想法产生长期兴趣的一个步骤。

That it has not taken them reflects scepticism that driving long-term interest rates even lower would be worth the criticism.

它还尚未采用的辩词反射出（市场对于美联储）驱使长期利率更低将会值得批评（的言论）的怀疑。

This, the report cautions, could cause long-term interest rates to rise much faster than expected, and dampen growth prospects.

报告警告说，这种现象有可能导致长期利率以远超过预期的速度攀升，对增长前景产生不利影响。

In a new paper Mr Borio and Piti Disyatat concede that excess global savings may have held down long-term interest rates prior to 2007.

在一份新的报告中，他和Piti Disyatat有所让步，同意在2007年前全球过渡的储蓄压制了长期利率水平。

Moreover, the long-term interest rates of leading countries are falling, not rising: in the US, 10-year Treasury bond rates are 3 per cent.

此外，主要国家的长期利率在不断下降，而非上升：在美国，10年期国债收益率为3%。

By buying securities such as Treasury bonds, a central bank can drive down long-term interest rates as well in an effort to stimulate the economy.

通过购买美国国债等证券，央行还可以推低长期利率水平，从而刺激经济。

Focusing on the yield curve (the relationship between short - and long-term interest rates) has historically been quite a good economic indicator.

从历史上看，关注收益曲线(yield curve)(长期利率与短期利率的关系)可以非常有效预示经济走向。

If they were rapidly to reduce their holdings, long-term interest rates would rise, which would hurt them, their customers and the economy at large.

如果他们急剧减少持有，长期利率将会上涨，这会普遍伤害银行、银行客户和经济。