The alternative that best completes the gapped excerpt below is, respectively: US Rate Rise The Chancellor returned from this month’s meeting of the ‘Group of Six’ with news that interest rates are to be _____ by an average of half a percentage point in the United States. While the Chancellor has been in Dallas, city markets have been feverish with rumours of even higher increases. The US dollar has been _at an all-time low for several weeks and the American trade deficit has been steadily. The Chairman of the Federal Reserve has gone to Tokyo to discuss the problems which have ______ from pressure in Congress to tackle the deficit. He will be in Japan until next Tuesday.