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Revamped forward guidance to help keep rates low

The decisions of the Fed and the Bank of England to place less emphasis on the unemployment rate as a guide to future policy should give them more wriggle room to keep interest rates low. The changes also underline that, when it comes to central bank communications, less is often better.

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