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U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a press conference where he announced the Fed had cut interest rates by a quarter point following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on interest rate policy in Washington, U.S., December 18, 2024.
This is a comparison of Wednesday's Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed's previous policymaking meeting in December.
Text removed from the December statement is in red with a horizontal line through the middle.
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Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined.
Black text appears in both statements.
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