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Fed Researchers Find Trade Policy Uncertainty a Drag on Growth

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Trade-policy uncertainty is holding back global economic growth and may weigh on the world economy into 2020, according to a Federal Reserve research note that puts some hard numbers on an argument the U.S. central bank has made for months.