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night, the central bank of the United States and the Federal Reserve system freezes the existing zero interest rate, and has decided to maintain the zero interest rate by the end of next year and the end of 2022. As such, it is uncertain when the U.S. economy and the world economy will recover, but on the contrary, they also expressed their willingness to keep money on the market until normalization.

First news, Correspondent Kim Yun-su reports from Washington.

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The Federal Reserve announced today (11th) that the standard interest rate was frozen at 0.00~0.25%.

The Fed says that the outbreak of Corona19 has caused tremendous human and economic distress, and that the ongoing public health crisis is putting strong pressures on economic activity, employment and prices in the short term, and in the medium term it also poses a significant risk to the economic outlook. Explained the background of keeping interest rates.

We also reaffirmed our willingness to support the economy by expanding liquidity supply through asset purchases.

[Powell /美Fed Chairman: We are surely the economy is strong policy support until you are confident heard fold on the road to recovery, and preemptively, will continue to continue to aggressively]

Fed this year, the US economy is a negative 6.5% We forecast growth and expect to recover 5% plus growth next year.

The unemployment rate for this year was expected to be 9.3%.

The Fed also indicated that by the end of 2022, the current level of zero interest rates would remain.

Fed Chairman Powell stressed that the pace of economic recovery in the United States is very uncertain, and he will not be able to achieve a full economic recovery until he is convinced that it is safe from Corona19.

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