91.   Central bankers reiterated their commitment to low rates this morning, traders and investors said.

92.   Central bankers typically raise rates to cool growth and ward off an increase in consumer prices.

93.   Central bankers use the rate to keep the economy from overheating and inflation from accelerating.

94.   Central bankers, citing a benign inflation outlook, began a series of interest rate reductions one year ago.

95.   Central bankers are always caught between concerns that a rate cut will spark excessive inflation and that interest rates that are too high will push an economy into recession.

96.   Central bankers are worried that if a rate cut raised inflation concern and drove up bond yields, it could do more harm than good.

97.   Central bankers cited low inflation as one reason for cutting rates by a quarter-percentage point in January.

98.   Central bankers cited moderate inflation as one reason for cutting rates by a quarter-percentage point in January.

99.   Central bankers gather for a two-day conference on the state of the economy Monday.

100.   Central bankers may already have enough evidence of a heightened inflation threat to justify an increase in bank rates, some investors say.