Fed may hike just once in 2015 as Yellen strikes less certain tone

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The question of how quickly the Federal Reserve should raise rates is dividing normally like-minded policymakers at the U.S. central bank, pitting those who favor two hikes this year against a growing number of those who want to stop at just one. The Fed has kept interest rates near zero since December 2008, and on Wednesday unanimously voted to keep them there. "While we cannot be certain, our best guess is that Fed Chair Yellen now anticipates only one increase this year - an important shift in the committee’s center of gravity," Goldman Sachs economists Jan Hatzius and Zach Pandl wrote in a note advising clients they now expect the Fed to wait until December to raise rates, from September previously.

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