Interest rates around the world are poised to rise. Short-term rates have gone so low since the worldwide recession of 2001 - 1% and 2%, respectively, in the United States and the Eurozone, and practically zero in Japan - that a strengthening world economy will force central banks to tighten the monetary reins.
世界范围内的银行利率都呈上升之势。短期利率自2001年世界经济不景气以来已降到如此之低-美国和欧元区的利率分别为1%和2%，日本的利率几乎为零-以至于正在走强的世界经济会迫使各国央行收紧货币政策。