Federal Reserve officials announced Wednesday that they had held their interest rate target steady and signaled that they wouldn’t raise rates at all this year.

They also announced plans to stop shrinking the Fed’s balance sheet by September, concluding the effort to reverse crisis-era stimulus.

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