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Fed seen keeping low-rate strategy

Posted: January 30, 2013 at 3:07 a.m.

The Federal Reserve, meeting this week, is likely to affirm its message that consumers and businesses will be able to borrow cheaply well into the future — even after unemployment has dropped sharply.

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