WASHINGTON: As widely expected, the Federal Reserve has opted to keep US interest rates at 45-year lows, and said they would stay down for a long time to lift an economy that is losing jobs.
In announcing their unanimous decision to leave the benchmark federal funds rate at a 1958 low of 1%, Fed policy-makers repeated a warning that already low inflation could move disturbingly lower.
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