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As Fed meets, key issues likely to stay unanswered

By Martin Crutsinger
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As Fed meets, key issues likely to stay unanswered

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve will likely end a policy meeting Wednesday with a lot of questions unanswered:

When will it start tightening its benchmark short-term interest rate to make sure future inflation remains under control? How will it do so? And when will the Fed start reducing its enormous investment holdings — a move that will put upward pressure on interest rates?

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