[영문뉴스] 금주 경제: FED는 속도를 늦춘다.

 

 

What's up? (Jan.29 - Feb.4)

 

Rates Go Up, but by less

 

The Federal Reserve continued its campaign to lift interest rates to tame rising prices on Wednesday, but this time the announcement of another increase - by a quarter point- was inflected with some optimism.

tame: VT. 길들이다, 다스리다 - tame rising prices: 물가를 다스리다 > 인상된 물가를 안정시키다.

inflect: VI. (단어,언어가) 굴절하다, 어미 변화를 하다 - be inflected with N >  반영하다.

 

For starters, the move was smaller than the half-point increase that preceded it and much smaller than the streak of three-quarter-point jumps before that. 

비교급 강조부사: much, even, far, still / 최상급 강조: even, by far

 

The central bank's decision was also accompanied by rare good news from Jerome H.Powell, the Fed chair, who said that "the disinflationary process has started." Of course, there are caveats.

be accompanied by: 동반하여 

a caveat [ ˈkæviæt ] :  경고, 통고 

 

Mr.Powell hinted that the Fed still planned to raise rates to just above 5 percent this year and warned that "the job is not fully done" in tamping down inflation. Still, investors sent stocks higher in the hope that the Fed's rate increases were near an end.

 

 

Hiring Surges

 

Jobs numbers soared far past analysts' forecasts on Friday, when the Labor Department reported that employers added 517,000 jobs in January on a seasonally adjusted basis.

past: ADJ. 지난, 최근의 N.과거 - soared far past analysts' forecasts: 최근 분석가의 예상을 뛰어넘어 상승했다.

 

Those numbers had been falling since July, reaching a low of 260,000 added jobs in December. The downward trend seemed to be evidence that the Fed's efforts to cool off the economy had reached the labor market, though policymakers were still worried that it remained much too tight. 

downward: ADJ. 하향의, 내려가는