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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke sent a fresh signal that he’s in no rush to reverse course and start boosting interest rates.
The Fed’s key bank lending rate is at a record low near zero and will probably stay there for an “extended period,” Bernanke said at a Fed conference in Washington.
That echoed the pledge he and his colleagues made at their meeting in late September. The goal: Super-low rates will entice people and businesses to spend more, nurturing the budding recovery.
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