Policymakers worry the market is overreacting to its interest-rate projections.

Blaming of Federal Reserve for the recent decline in emerging-market currencies shows the agency will face global criticism, whatever its policy.

Blaming of Federal Reserve for the recent decline in emerging-market currencies shows the agency will face global criticism, whatever its policy.

Consumer spending maintained gains and business investment grew, according to the Fed's Beige Book.

Consumer spending maintained gains and business investment grew, according to the Fed's Beige Book.

Bernanke says Fed is on course to end asset buying by mid-2014, but he does not anticipate raising interest rates anytime soon.

Bernanke says Fed is on course to end asset buying by mid-2014, but he does not anticipate raising interest rates anytime soon.

Federal Reserve will keep buying bonds until job growth averages 200,000 or more for four months in a row, according to two former Fed economists.