“Unusually harsh winter weather appears to be behind recent signs of weakness in the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Thursday, suggesting the central bank was poised to press forward in ratcheting back its stimulus. Testifying to the Senate Banking Committee, Yellen said the Fed would watch carefully to ensure weather was indeed the culprit, but she reiterated that it would take a ‘significant change’ to the economy’s prospects for the Fed to put plans to wind down its bond-buying program on hold. The world’s largest economy added fewer than 200,000 jobs combined in December and January, well below expectations.”
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