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US sees 'modest' growth, businesses show 'near-term' optimism: Fed

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Last Updated : Sep 05 2019 | 12:25 AM IST

The US economy grew at an unspectacular pace in recent weeks, while businesses still took a rosy view of the near future despite the escalating US-China trade war, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.

"Although concerns regarding tariffs and trade policy uncertainty continued, the majority of businesses remained optimistic about the near-term outlook," the central bank said in nationwide survey of economic activity.

But Fed still drew a spotty portrait, pointing to an array of softening or deteriorating conditions that could be signs of coming slowdown.

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First Published: Sep 05 2019 | 12:25 AM IST

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