With QE3 done and dusted, the Fed has emphasised that the incoming economic data will determine when interest rates first rise. Our forecasts that the unemployment rate will fall faster than the Fed expects and that core inflation will rise earlier are consistent with the first hike coming in the first half of next year. A rise at the meeting in March remains possible.
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