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US Fed keeps key interest rate at 0% amid pandemic

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Chairman Jerome Powell says the Federal Reserve will keep its key rate at zero "until it is confident that the economy has weathered recent events and is on track to achieve its maximum employment and price stability goals." SOUNDBITE

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