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Yellen Goes on Road to Investigate Health of the Jobs Market
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Janet Yellen's first meeting as chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Reserve and press conference, March 18, 2014
03/19/2014
Yellen's emphasizes she will look at a broad range of indicators including inflation, jobless for over 6 months and parttime workers who want full time jobs, and fianncial market developments. The Fed continued to reduce its bond purchases- from $65 billion to $55 billion a month. The Fed said plans were to increase short term interest rates about 6 months after the bond purchases end in the fall of 2014, but to do so very gradually and in small increments. A majority of economists interpreted this to mean the Fed will not increase rates till 2015, especially considering the focus on broad indicators includes other aspects of the unemployment picture that are not included in the unemployment rate.
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