Sentence examples for has left its benchmark from inspiring English sources

The FOMC has left its benchmark federal fund rate at historically low levels, saying it will do so "for an extended period" to give the economy a long runway to build a sustainable recovery.

For more than four months now, the Fed has left its benchmark short-term interest rate at 1percentthethe lowest level since the 1950's, partly to ward off deflation.

In June, the central bank had left its benchmark bank-lending rate unchanged at a 41-year low of 1.75percentt and retained its view that risks to the economy were balanced between weakness and higher inflation.

A rate increase next month would mark a resumption of the increases the Fed began in December, after having left its benchmark rate at a record low near-zero for seven years.

The drought had left its mark.

But it left its benchmark interest rate unchanged, citing "high uncertainty" about the recovery.

The central bank left its benchmark rate at 2percentt, where it has been for 11 months.

The central bank on Thursday left its benchmark interest rate at 1 percent, where it has been since May.

The bank, which sets monetary policy for the 16 countries using the euro, left its benchmark interest rate at 1 percent, where it has been since May.

The European Central Bank, which sets monetary policy for the 16 countries in the euro zone, left its benchmark interest rate at 1 percent, where it has been for more than a year.

To no one's surprise, the European Central Bank on Thursday left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 1 percent, where it has been for a year and where some economists expect it to be a year from now.