Analysts: US Central Bank Likely Still 'Patient' on Raising Interest Rates

The U.S. economy is surging, but analysts are predicting that policy makers at the U.S. central bank will remain "patient" in deciding when to raise its benchmark interest rate for the first time since 2006. Key officials at the Federal Reserve are ending a two-day meeting Wednesday in Washington and will then give their assessment of the U.S. economy, the world's largest. The American economy has been advancing, in sharp contrast to slowing growth in China, a recession...

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