US Fed plays down liftoff timing for hike in interest rates

Atlanta

JANET Yellen wants you to know that while the era of zero rates may be drawing to a close, money will stay cheap for a long time to come.

The Federal Reserve chair and her colleagues have stressed in recent speeches that monetary policy will remain unusually easy after they begin to tighten this year for the first time in almost a decade. They are telling investors the pace of increases is more important than the liftoff date.