受银行提高利率的影响,今年以来美国经济开始降温。 据美商务部4月28日公布的数字,今年第一季度美国的实际国内生产总值以年率计算达54717亿美元,比上个季度增长了2.8％。这一增长率不仅明显低于去年第四季度5.1％的增长年率,而且是1993年第三季度以来增长率最低的一个季度。 为使“过热”的经济“降温”,联邦储备委员会从去年2月4日到今年2月1日分7次把联邦基金利率从3％提高到6％。在同时期内,商业银行把向信誉最好的客户贷款的优惠利率从6％提高到9％。 Affected by bank interest rates, the U.S. economy has cooled down this year. According to figures released by the U.S. Department of Commerce on April 28, the real GDP of the United States in the first quarter of this year was 5.4717 trillion U.S. dollars, an increase of 2.8% over the previous quarter. This growth rate is not only significantly lower than the 5.1% annual growth rate in the fourth quarter of last year, but also the lowest growth rate since the third quarter of 1993. In order to “cool down” the “overheated” economy, the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate from 3% to 6% seven times from February 4 last year to February 1 this year. During the same period, commercial banks increased their prime lending to customers with the best credit rating from 6% to 9%.