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Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota said the Fed’s record stimulus hasn’t pushed down the real interest rate enough to meet its mandate to achieve price stability and full employment.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said the U.S. job market is “doing better” thanks to record policy stimulus, while adding that he wants to see employment gains continue through the summer.
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Slowing inflation is giving central bankers scope to provide the world economy with more liquidity and lower interest rates for longer, all in the name of price stability.
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Debate among Federal Reserve policy makers is shifting away from the timing of a reduction in bond buying to the need to extend record stimulus as inflation cools and 11.7 million Americans remain jobless.
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Following are the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee meeting that concluded on March 20.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota said the central bank’s low interest-rate policies, though necessary, will probably generate signs of financial instability.
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Three regional Federal Reserve bank presidents said a further decline in U.S. inflation below the Fed’s 2 percent goal may signal a need for more accommodation.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota said the Fed should do more to spur economic growth by reducing the threshold for consideration of a policy tightening to a 5.5 percent unemployment rate.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota said it’s too soon to say a plunge in gold prices stemmed from greater investor confidence in the U.S. economy.
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Wall Street’s biggest bond dealers see little chance the Federal Reserve will slow the pace of debt purchases designed to boost economic growth before the fourth quarter, even as policy makers face calls to curb the buying.