The Fed: Fed officials at March meeting were keenly worried about impact of bank stress on economy

Federal Reserve officials, meeting days after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, agreed that the stress in the banking sector would slow U.S. economic growth, but were uncertain about how much, according to minutes of the meeting released Wednesday.

The twelve voting members on the Fed’s interest-rate committee “agree that recent developments were likely to result in tighter credit conditions for households and businesses and to weigh on economic activity, hiring and inflation, but that the extend of these effects were…