Federal Reserve officials regarded the U.S. economy’s outlook as particularly uncertain last month, according to minutes released Wednesday, and said they would “proceed carefully” in deciding whether to further raise their benchmark interest rate.
Such cautious comments are generally seen as evidence that the Fed isn't inclined to raise rates in the near future.
Several of the 19 Fed policymakers said that with the Fed’s key rate “likely at or near its peak, the focus” of their policy decisions should “shift from how high to raise the policy rate to how long” to keep it at restrictive levels. On Wednesday, Christopher Waller, an influential member of the Fed’s governing board, suggested that the higher long-term rates, by making many loans costlier for consumers and businesses, are doing “some of the work for us” in fighting inflation.
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