The Federal Reserve could raise interest rates sooner than anticipated, according to minutes of the central bank's last policy-making meeting. Furthermore, members of the Federal Open Market Committee believe that the labor market is healing, that inflation is close to the right level, and that the Fed is on pace to end its quantitative easing stimulus in October.
This seems to be a shift away from the ultra-dovish tone that Fed Chair Janet Yellen has struck in recent months. Yellen previously insinuated that even with unemployment moving closer toward the Fed's target of between 5.2 percent and 5.5 percent, very elevated levels of part-time workers who want full-time jobs meant that there was slack in the economy. She also suggested that the Fed had room to continue with accommodative policy measures to raise employment.
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