Fed Dissents Came in Two Directions -- WSJ

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By WSJ Staff

Three Fed presidents-Beth Hammack of Cleveland, Neel Kashkari of Minneapolis, and Lorie Logan of Dallas-backed today's Fed rate decision but objected to retaining the so-called "easing bias" that for the last two years has suggested a rate cut is more likely than a rate hike. A fourth official, Fed governor Steven Miran, dissented in the opposite direction; he backed a rate cut.

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