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US Fed leaves rates unchanged, signals policy will continue through 2020

Policy makers had been widely expected to leave rates on hold after three straight cuts that helped calm concerns the economy could falter

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Craig Torres and Matthew Boesler | Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and signaled it would stay on hold through 2020, keeping it on the sidelines in an election year while also opening the possibility it might buy short-term coupon-bearing securities to ease money-market strain.

“Our economic outlook remains a favorable one despite global developments and ongoing risks,” Chairman Jerome Powell told a press conference Wednesday in Washington following the decision. “As long as incoming information about the economy remains broadly consistent with this outlook, the current stance of monetary policy likely will remain appropriate.”

The Treasury 10-year yields fell below 1.8%, the dollar declined and US

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