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As the Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee holds two days of meetings this week in Washington, global business executives at the Milken Global Conference are carefully watching the words and

Rating agency Standard & Poor’s expects that the Federal Reserve will begin exiting its very low interest rate policy in the second quarter of next year,

Federal Reserve Governor Jeremy Stein said Wednesday that the large amount of bank reserves does not pose an inflation threat – provided the Fed is willing to raise interest rates soon enough and high enough.

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren Tuesday said the U.S. economy is not yet on the path towards 2% inflation, the central bank’s price stability target,

Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser said Tuesday it would be “dangerous” to leave interest rates unchanged at a historically low level if the jobless rate falls near 5% and the inflation rate is near the Fed’s target of 2%.

Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Narayana Kocherlakota said Tuesday that while he expects inflation is headed back toward the central bank’s 2% target, it would take as long as four years to get there.

Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart said Wednesday he supports the continued unwinding of Fed asset purchases, but short-term interest rate hikes should be delayed until at least the second half of next year.