WASHINGTON: With a full three months of responding to a global pandemic under their belt, United States Federal Reserve (Fed) officials have united around one point: lasting progress on the economic front will be dictated by success in containing the spread of the coronavirus.
But agreement beyond that may be elusive, as Fed policymakers meet this week to balance fresh signs the US may be over the worst of the economic fallout from the pandemic against evidence the virus is not yet under control.
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