Altogether, the report indicates that inflation is loosening its stranglehold on the U.S. economy, though prices remain well above the Fed’s 2% target.
“We see today’s report as progress and building confidence,” Fed Chair Jerome Powell told reporters at the post-meeting press conference in Washington. “But we don’t see ourselves as having the confidence that would warrant beginning to loosen policy at this time.”
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