Inflation & Prices
Fed Sought More Evidence of Cooling Inflation, June Minutes Show
- Policymakers were divided on how long to keep rates elevated
- Several warned further cooling in demand may lift unemployment
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Federal Reserve officials said they were awaiting additional evidence that inflation is cooling and were divided on how long to keep interest rates elevated at their last policy meeting.
Minutes from the two-day Federal Open Market Committee gathering ended June 12 showed officials didn’t expect it would be appropriate to lower borrowing costs “until additional information had emerged to give them greater confidence that inflation” is on track to their 2% goal.