Sentence examples for fed reduced from inspiring English sources

As the fed funds rate went as low as it could go, the Fed reduced the spread between the two rates to half a percentage point in August 2007 and then to a quarter point in March 2008.

On Sept. 18, the Fed reduced benchmark rates by half a percentage point.

By lowering rates, the Fed reduced banks' costs, making lending more profitable.

Eventually, as the Fed reduced interest rates, the stimulus worked, and G.D.P. growth picked up sharply.

The Fed reduced its main lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to 1.75percentthethe 11th time this year it has cut borrowing costs.

But those hopes waned after the Open Market Committee's last meeting, when the Fed reduced the federal funds rate by only one-quarter of a percentage point.

In conclusion, feeding reduced NE diets to pigs did not result in major changes in growth performance.

Forcing the rats to rise to erect stance for feeding reduced trabecular and cortical bone loss caused by orx.

Thus, acute feeding reduced circulating progesterone in pregnant lactating cows apparently due to an increase in progesterone metabolism.

However the Ca and P contents in plasma of sheep fed the aflatoxin-contaminated diet without drying for 150 d of feeding reduced significantly (P<0.05; <0.01).

For higher-risk cows, 3× feeding reduced the area below pH 5.8 (51 vs. 98 pH × min/d), but it did not affect rumen pH for the lower-risk cows.