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Fed’s Yellen argues for interest rate caution in exchange with Nader

In a letter to Nader, the Fed chair repeated recent statements that the central bank should only gradually raise interest rates. “An overly aggressive increase in rates … would at undercut the economic expansion, necessitating a lasting return to low interest rates,” Yellen said in the letter. Nader published an open letter to Yellen on Oct. 30 that asked her to consider the “humble savers” with money in banks and money market accounts who were “frustrated by the Fed's low rates and melodramatic debate about when to

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Tight inventories, rising prices hurt U.S. home sales

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. home resales fell in October as a persistent shortage of properties limited choice for potential buyers and pushed up prices, suggesting some softening in the pace of the…

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Tight inventories, rising prices hurt U.S. home sales