以下为美联储Fed12月16-17日货币政策会议后发布的声明全文:

　　联邦公开市场委员会(FOMC)自10月会议以来获得的信息显示，经济活动正温和扩张。就业市场状况进一步有所改善，就业增长稳健且失业率下滑。总的来说，一系列就业市场指标显示就业资源利用不足的情况正在逐步减少。家庭支出正温和成长，企业固定投资增加，而楼市复苏仍缓慢。通胀继续处于委员会的较长期目标水准之下，部份反映能源价格下跌。基于市场的通胀补偿指标有所下滑，调查显示较长期通胀预期仍稳定。

　　委员会将依照法定的目标，寻求促进就业最大化和物价稳定。委员会预计在合适的宽松政策下，经济活动将温和扩张，就业市场指标和通胀将向委员会认为符合其双目标的水准靠拢。委员会预计经济和就业市场前景的风险接近平衡。委员会预计随着就业市场进一步改善以及能源价格下挫等其他因素的暂时性影响消退，通胀将逐步升向2%。委员会将继续密切留意通胀发展。

　　为支持向就业最大化和物价稳定的目标继续前进，委员会今日确认维持目前联邦基金利率0-0.25%目标区间仍是合适的。在决定维持目前联邦基金利率0-0.25%目标区间多久时，委员会将评估向就业最大化以及2%通胀目标的已实现和预期的进展。评估将考量广泛的信息，包括就业市场状况数据、通胀压力指标和通胀预期，以及金融市场发展读数。基于目前的评估，委员会认为可以耐心的开始将货币政策立场正常化。委员会预计指引符合之前声明提及的在10月购买资产结束后的一段相当长时间内维持联邦基金利率目前0-0.25%目标区间将可能是合适的，尤其是如果预估通胀继续低于委员会2%的较长期目标，且通胀预期仍牢牢受控。不过，如果未来信息显示向委员会就业和通胀目标所取得的进展要比目前预期更快，那么可能要比目前预期更早上调联邦基金利率目标区间。相反，如果进展较预期缓慢，则可能比目前预期推迟上调利率目标区间。

　　委员会维持把所持机构债和机构MBS回笼本金再投资到机构MBS的现有政策，以及通过标购继续延长所持公债年期。委员会透过持有庞大的较长期证券仓位应会有助于维持宽松的金融市场状况。

　　在委员会决定开始撤走宽松政策时，将采取符合就业最大化和通胀2%较长期目标的均衡措施。委员会目前预期，即便在就业和通胀接近符合目标的水准，经济状况可能在一段时间内都需要美联储维持目标联邦基金利率低于委员会认为的较长期正常水准。

　　投票赞成美联储货币政策决议的FOMC委员包括:美联储主席叶伦、副主席杜德利、理事布雷纳德、理事费希尔、克利夫兰联储主席梅斯特、理事鲍威尔、理事塔鲁洛。

　　达拉斯联储主席费舍尔费希尔投票反对，他相信尽管委员会应耐心的开始将货币政策正常化，但自10月美国经济表现的改善已经将上调联邦基金利率的合适时机提前，较委员会多数委员预期的更早。

　　明尼阿波利斯联储主席柯薛拉柯塔投反对票，他相信在持续低通胀和较长期通胀预期市场指标下滑的情况下，委员会的决定给联储2%通胀目标可信性带来下滑风险。

　　费城联储主席普罗索也投下反对票，他相信声明不应强调时间上的重要性作为前瞻性指引的关键因素，因经济状况改善，且声明不应强调当前前瞻性指引同之前声明的一致性。

　　声明原文

　　For immediate release

　　Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in October suggests that economic activity is expanding at a moderate pace. Labor market conditions improved further, with solid job gains and a lower unemployment rate. On balance, a range of labor market indicators suggests that underutilization of labor resources continues to diminish. Household spending is rising moderately and business fixed investment is advancing, while the recovery in the housing sector remains slow. Inflation has continued to run below the Committees longer-run tive, partly reflecting declines in energy prices. Market-based measures of inflation compensation have declined somewhat further; survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations have remained stable.

　　Consistent with its statutory mandate, the Committee seeks to foster maximum employment and price stability. The Committee expects that, with appropriate policy accommodation, economic activity will expand at a moderate pace, with labor market indicators moving toward levels the Committee judges consistent with its dual mandate. The Committee sees the risks to the outlook for economic activity and the labor market as nearly balanced. The Committee expects inflation to rise gradually toward 2 percent as the labor market improves further and the transitory effects of lower energy prices and other factors dissipate. The Committee continues to monitor inflation developments closely.

　　To support continued progress toward maximum employment and price stability, the Committee today reaffirmed its view that the current 0 to 1/4 percent target range for the federal funds rate remains appropriate. In determining how long to maintain this target range, the Committee will assess progressboth realized and expectedtoward its tives of maximum employment and 2 percent inflation. This assessment will take into account a wide range of information, including measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and readings on financial developments. Based on its current assessment, the Committee judges that it can be patient in beginning to normalize the stance of monetary policy. The Committee sees this guidance as consistent with its previous statement that it likely will be appropriate to maintain the 0 to 1/4 percent target range for the federal funds rate for a considerable time following the end of its asset purchase program in October, especially if projected inflation continues to run below the Committees 2 percent longer-run goal, and provided that longer-term inflation expectations remain well anchored. However, if incoming information indicates faster progress toward the Committees employment and inflation tives than the Committee now expects, then increases in the target range for the federal funds rate are likely to occur sooner than currently anticipated. Conversely, if progress proves slower than expected, then increases in the target range are likely to occur later than currently anticipated.

　　The Committee is maintaining its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities and of rolling over maturing Treasury securities at auction. This policy, by keeping the Committees holdings of longer-term securities at sizable levels, should help maintain accommodative financial conditions.

　　When the Committee decides to begin to remove policy accommodation, it will take a balanced approach consistent with its longer-run goals of maximum employment and inflation of 2 percent. The Committee currently anticipates that, even after employment and inflation are near mandate-consistent levels, economic conditions may, for some time, warrant keeping the target federal funds rate below levels the Committee views as normal in the longer run.

　　Voting for the FOMC monetary policy action were: Janet L. Yellen, Chair; William C. Dudley, Vice Chairman; Lael Brainard; Stanley Fischer; Loretta J. Mester; Jerome H. Powell; and Daniel K. Tarullo.

　　Voting against the action were Richard W. Fisher, who believed that, while the Committee should be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy, improvement in the U.S. economic performance since October has moved forward, further than the majority of the Committee envisions, the date when it will likely be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate; Narayana Kocherlakota, who believed that the Committees decision, in the context of ongoing low inflation and falling market-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations, created undue downside risk to the credibility of the 2 percent inflation target; and Charles I. Plosser, who believed that the statement should not stress the importance of the passage of time as a key element of its forward guidance and, given the improvement in economic conditions, should not emphasize the consistency of the current forward guidance with previous statements.