Gold may be over $1,000 an ounce and oil back up to $80 a barrel, but the Federal Reserve is determined not to react too quickly to contain inflation. It's worried that raising rates now might choke off the fragile recovery. So on Nov. 4 the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee stood its ground again, vowing to keep rates at a rock-bottom zero to 0.25% "for an extended period."
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