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Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chairman /Getty Images
By Binyamin Appelbaum, New York Times
Jan. 30, 2019
WASHINGTON — In suspending its previous plans to continue raising rates this year, the Federal Reserve signaled that its march toward higher interest rates may be ending sooner than expected.
The Fed’s chairman, Jerome H. Powell, said economic growth remained “solid” and the central bank expected growth to continue. But in a sharp reversal of the Fed’s stance just six week ago, Mr. Powell said the...