Janet Yellen’s Fed Era Ends With Unanimous Vote of No Rate Hike
- Adds ‘further’ for emphasis in outlook for gradual hikes
- Inflation ‘is expected to move up this year,’ FOMC says
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Federal Reserve officials, meeting for the last time under Chair Janet Yellen, left borrowing costs unchanged while adding emphasis to their plan for more hikes, setting the stage for an increase in March under her successor Jerome Powell.
“The committee expects that economic conditions will evolve in a manner that will warrant further gradual increases in the federal funds rate,” the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement Wednesday in Washington, adding the word “further” twice to previous language.