Federal Reserve

Here's what changed in the new Fed statement

This is a comparison of Wednesday's FOMC statement with the one issued after the Fed's previous policy-making meeting on Nov. 2.

Text removed from the November statement is in red with a horizontal line through the middle.

Janet Yellen chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve
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Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined.

Black text appears in both statements.