Statement

Name: Janet L. Yellen

Summary: Janet Yellen Expects Interest Rate Increase This Year: "Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen argued the case for raising short-term interest rates later this year, effectively lobbing a warning to skittish financial markets that last week’s decision to keep rates near zero wasn’t a shift toward an interminable delay of liftoff."

Lean: Hawkish

Substantially Similar to Prior Statements: No

Statement Date: September 24, 2015

Publication Date: September 24, 2015

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