美联储寻求缩减QE

 　　-New signs this morning that the housing market is heating up. Home sales are expected to show another monthly spike¹ this morning.

　　Good news for homeowners. Also, a growing risk that buyers could get burned.

　　Here more with that, our financial contributor,Betty Lou. Betty you know the tough news for buyers, not only the prices have gone up, the mortgage rate is spiking² too.

　　-You said it, Gorge,the National Association of Realtors is expected to show that home sales grew by about 1.5% in July. That's a reversal from the decline in June  So right now if your home are ***, you're making money off of it.

　　In the 20 biggest city, home prices have gone up 14%. Two things are happening here. We're adding new jobs and the low interest rates. But as you said, George. They've gone up in the last three months. A 30-year fix-rate mortgage has increased by over 1 percentage point.

　　If you have a mortgage on a $200,000 house, 20% down, your mortgage payment would have increased by over $100 a month. That's $1,300 a year.

　　What's driving it? Well, it's interesting because oddly enough, it's because the economy is doing so well.

　　The federal reserve says, we may actually take the training wheels off this economy while pull back on stimulus³, that's causing interest rates to rise.

　　We're going to get a better idea of how the fed is thinking because later today, they're going to release the transcript⁴ of their last policy meeting.

　　But don't panic yet, right? The interest rates are historically low, the demand is so high that economists⁵ are saying any slowdown is likely to be temporary.

1 spike   

n.长钉，钉鞋；v.以大钉钉牢，使...失效

参考例句：

• The spike pierced the receipts and held them in order.那个钉子穿过那些收据并使之按顺序排列。
• They'll do anything to spike the guns of the opposition.他们会使出各种手段来挫败对手。

2 spiking   

n.尖峰形成v.加烈酒于( spike的现在分词 )；偷偷地给某人的饮料加入（更多）酒精（ 或药物）；把尖状物钉入；打乱某人的计划

参考例句：

• High spiking fever with chills is suggestive of a complicating pylephlebitis. 伴有寒战的高热，暗示合并门静脉炎。 来自辞典例句
• We could be spiking our own guns. 我们可能要遭到失败。 来自辞典例句

3 stimulus   

n.刺激，刺激物，促进因素，引起兴奋的事物

参考例句：

• Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
• Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。

4 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

5 economists   

n.经济学家，经济专家( economist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
• Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》