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2013届高考英语听力特训3（word文本）：22 The Treasury Department announced today that it is lowering the guaranteed interest rate on some US savings bonds. NPRs Barbara Mantell reports that the 1.5 point decline to 6% came as no surprise to investors. The Treasury said it is lowering the rate on savings bonds to bring it in line with other market interest rates which have been falling all year. For instance, money market mutual funds are now yielding just over 5%; five-year treasury notes are trading at about 6.5%. So the government has been paying a premium to people buying savings bonds, and its turned out