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Low yields are warning Fed to think twice on rate hike – Kaplan

Financial markets are warning of weakness in the U.S. economy, so the Federal Reserve should be "very patient and judicious" as it considers whether to raise interest rates, a policymaker in the Fed's cautious camp said on Thursday. In a speech and press conference, Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan underscored his concerns about a series of weak inflation readings, saying he wants to see evidence that it would rebound "in the medium term" before he could support another rate hike. "There is no doubt that as the (yield) curve gets flatter and inverted, that is a sign of economic trouble," Kaplan, a voting member of the Fed's policy committee this year, said of the 10-year Treasury yield at 2.2 percent.


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