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Yellen sees 'a little bit more slack' in labor market
CLEVELAND
The U.S. labor market is not quite as tight as the current 5.3 percent
unemployment rate suggests, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on
Friday, signaling she sees more room for low interest rates to help job
conditions.
"You are absolutely right that by some metrics we have gone beyond maximum
sustainable employment, and by others we haven’t," she said in answer to a
question from a member of the audience after a speech here. The unemployment
rate, she said, is the best single measure of labor market slack, but there
are many others she also takes into consideration. "5.3 is pretty close,
but at least my own judgment is there is a little bit more slack than that."
She also said that the IMF's view that the Fed should not raise interest
rates until 2016 is "part of the spectrum of opinion." |
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