美国联邦储备委员会的主要官员星期三开会讨论提振陷于困境的经济的措施。一些经济学家猜测，政府的努力包括购买美国政府长期债券，以降低为消费者和企业借债的成本。信贷市场是经济增长的关键，但是在美国房屋市场崩溃后，信贷市场陷入停滞状态。
星期三公布的一份报告显示，美国消费品价格的上涨速度是去年7月份以来最快的。美联储官员要考虑这些新数据。汽油和服装价格上扬，导致消费品价格在2月份上涨0.4%。
Top officials of the U.S. Federal Reserve (central bank) are meeting Wednesday to consider more ways to boost the struggling U.S. economy. Some economists speculate that effort will include a program of buying long-term U.S. Treasury bonds, intended to ease borrowing costs for consumers and businesses. The credit market is a key to economic growth, but it stalled when the U.S. housing market collapsed.
Officials have some new data to consider as a report Wednesday shows U.S. consumer prices rose at the fastest rate since last July. February’s four-tenths of a percent increase was driven by higher prices for gasoline and clothing.