{"id":7088,"date":"2013-03-20T14:09:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T18:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=7088"},"modified":"2013-03-20T14:09:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T18:09:58","slug":"march-fomc-meeting-business-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/20\/march-fomc-meeting-business-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"March FOMC Meeting | Business Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"background-color:#ddddff;\"><p>The Committee continues to see downside risks to the economic outlook. The Committee also anticipates that inflation over the medium term likely will run at or below its 2 percent objective.<\/p>\n<p>To support a stronger economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at the rate most consistent with its dual mandate, the Committee decided to continue purchasing additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of $40 billion per month and longer-term Treasury securities at a pace of $45 billion per month. The Committee is maintaining its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities and of rolling over maturing Treasury securities at auction. Taken together, these actions should maintain downward pressure on longer-term interest rates, support mortgage markets, and help to make broader financial conditions more accommodative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/march-fomc-meeting-2013-3\">March FOMC Meeting &#8211; Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Committee continues to see downside risks to the economic outlook. The Committee also anticipates that inflation over the medium term likely will run at or below its 2 percent objective. 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