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When they met earlier this month, Federal Reserve officials continued to anticipate further increases in borrowing costs would be necessary to bring inflation down to their 2 percent target, although almost all supported a step down in the pace of interest rate hikes.
"Participants observed that a restrictive policy stance would need to be maintained until the incoming data provided confidence that inflation was on a sustained downward path to 2 percent, which was likely to take some time," according to the minutes of the gathering on January 31 and February 1, which were released in Washington yesterday.
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