{"id":445757,"date":"2011-06-22T17:56:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T17:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/22\/fed-keeps-interest-rates-on-hold\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T17:56:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T17:56:42","slug":"fed-keeps-interest-rates-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/22\/fed-keeps-interest-rates-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed keeps interest rates on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"40.5850091408\"><span><span>22 June 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>13:56 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Reserve has voted to keep US interest rates on hold for the 22nd meeting in succession, as expected.<\/p>\n<p>Its policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee said that while the US economy was continuing to recover &#8220;at a moderate pace&#8221; this was &#8220;somewhat more slowly&#8221; than it had expected.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the continuing economic weakness was mainly due to temporary factors, such as higher energy prices.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke will give a press conference later.<\/p>\n<p>The central bank is also due to publish its latest economic projections.<\/p>\n<p>US interest rates have now been between 0% and 0.25% since December 2008 in an effort to boost economy growth.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Reserve said rates would probably remain at this level &#8220;for an extended period&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The rest is here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/business-13882420\" title=\"Fed keeps interest rates on hold\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fed keeps interest rates on hold<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 22 June 2011 Last updated at 13:56 ET The Federal Reserve has voted to keep US interest rates on hold for the 22nd meeting in succession, as expected. Its policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee said that while the US economy was continuing to recover &#8220;at a moderate pace&#8221; this was &#8220;somewhat more slowly&#8221; than it had expected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fed keeps interest rates on hold - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/22\/fed-keeps-interest-rates-on-hold\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Fed keeps interest rates on hold - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"22 June 2011 Last updated at 13:56 ET The Federal Reserve has voted to keep US interest rates on hold for the 22nd meeting in succession, as expected. 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