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PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 2 最 新 财 经 资 讯 第3期 （总第114期） 国际司 2014-1-7 目 录 美国 耶伦提名获参议院批准，美联储迎来新掌门 美股走低，延续新年暗淡局面 中国 中国央行2014年展望 中国经济12月份出现放缓迹象 中国出台新规以加强影子银行监管 Yellen gets final stamp of approval to head U.S. Fed Reuters| Jan.7 2014 Janet Yellen, a key force behind the Federal Reserves unprecedented and controversial efforts to boost the U.S. economy, was confirmed by the Senate on Monday to lead the central bank just as it begins to unwind that stimulus. When she succeeds Ben Bernanke, whose second four-year term as Fed chairman expires on January 31, Yellen will become the first woman to run the Fed in its 100-year history and just one of a handful of women heading central banks globally. She is currently the Feds vice chair. The vote to approve her was 56-26. Yellen won resounding support from Democrats, but many Republicans voted no. The Fed cut overnight interest rates to near zero in late 2008 and has quadrupled its balance sheet to more than $4 trillion through a series of massive bond purchase programs meant to push down longer-term borrowing costs. Yellen, 67, spent years defending those efforts, arguing both as Bernankes deputy and before that as head of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank that they would reduce borrowing costs and spur hiring and economic growth. Now those policies appear to be working: the U.S. unemployment rate fell in November to a five-year low of 7 percent and the economy grew in the third quarter of 2013 at its fastest pace in almost two years. Yellens main task in the worlds most powerful financial post likely will be to navigate the central banks way out of its extraordinary stimulus, beginning with dialing down its bond-buying program. In December, Bernanke began the process, leading the central bank to its landmark decision to shave the bond purchases to $75 billion this month from a previous monthly pace of $85 billion. The entire program, known as QE3 because it is the Feds third such effort a