由美联储高级官员和地区联邦储备银行行长组成的联邦公开市场委员会（FOMC）一致认为，联邦基金利率将维持在目前的近零水平直至失业率下降至6.5%并且可预期继续下降。
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), comprising the Fed governors and the presidents of the regional Federal Reserve banks, has agreed that the federal funds rate will remain at its current near-zero level until the unemployment rate drops to 6.5% and can be expected to remain there or decline even further.