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Fed Says It Will Remain 'Patient' on Hiking Rates

Fed also says the U.S. economy is on track despite turmoil in other global markets.
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/ Source: Reuters

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday repeated that it will remain "patient" in deciding when to raise interest rates, and said the U.S. economy is on track despite turmoil in other markets around the world.

Concluding their first policy-setting meeting of the year, Fed officials looked past the urgent moves made by other central banks this month to boost their struggling economies and saw continued economic expansion in the United States."The committee judges that it can be patient in beginning to normalize the stance of monetary policy," the Fed's policy statement said.

The Fed acknowledged that inflation had declined further below its longer-run objective and that market-based inflation measures had fallen substantially - a more negative assessment of inflation pressures than in December. But the Fed's overall tone was optimistic, keeping it on pace to raise rates later this year. Some Fed officials and economists have indicated a rate hike, which would be the first in nearly a decade, is more likely to occur between June and September.

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-- Reuters