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             Fed Ponders Interest Rates, Economic Troubles, Growth

   by VOA News

   Top officials of the U.S. central bank have been discussing economic
   issues and debating for the past two days how soon and how fast to
   raise the key U.S. interest rate.

   Interest rates were cut to nearly zero during the financial crisis in a
   bid to boost U.S. economic growth. With the world's largest economy
   recovering, such help is no longer needed and most economists expect
   interest rates be begin rising in the middle of 2015.

   [1]Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen was scheduled to meet with
   journalists Wednesday to explain the Fed's decisions.

   Yellen and her colleagues got a new look at U.S. inflation earlier in
   the day. New data show falling oil prices have cut price increases in
   the overall economy by three-tenths of a percent in November. Outside
   the volatile areas of food and energy, prices in the overall economy
   rose a very modest one-tenth of a percent.
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   roubles-growth/2562798.html

References

   1. http://www.federalreserve.gov/
   2. http://www.voanews.com/content/fed-ponders-interest-rates-economic-troubles-growth/2562798.html