Sentence examples for left their benchmark from inspiring English sources

The policymakers left their benchmark rate unchanged in a range of 0.25% to 0.5%.

At the regular meeting last week, they left their benchmark short-term interest rate at 1percentt.

For the ninth consecutive month, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank left their benchmark interest rates unchanged.

Amid the tumult, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England left their benchmark interest rates unchanged at record lows of 1 percent and 0.5 percent, respectively.

Both central banks left their benchmark rates unchanged, at 1.5 percent for the euro area covered by the European Central Bank and 0.5 percent for Britain.

The Bank of England and the European Central Bank left their benchmark interest rates unchanged, signaling that both institutions are expecting inflationary pressures.

Based on some of this earlier data, Federal Reserve policy makers had already decided to leave their benchmark short-term interest rate unchanged at 6.5percentt when they met a week and a half ago.

Further pressure could come later this week if two other major central banks, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England, decide to leave their benchmark interest rates unchanged, bolstering the attractiveness of interest rates abroad.

But the Dow and the overall market retreated in the afternoon when Federal Reserve policy makers provided their first hint of the need to raise interest rates sometime next year, although they left their short-term interest rate benchmark unchanged.

On monetary policy, Mr. Geithner will be vice chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, where Federal Reserve policy makers decide whether to raise, lower or leave unchanged their benchmark interest rate, the federal funds rate.

Central bankers left the benchmark rate unchanged.