By Alister Bull, Reuters


The Federal Reserve would have to see accumulated evidence that the U.S. economy was “really slowing down” and inflation pressures easing to end its monetary tightening campaign, a top Fed official said on Thursday.


St Louis Fed President William Poole played down the soft fourth-quarter economic growth, which he said was due to a variety of special factors that should prove temporary.


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