The Fed: Fed’s Barkin leaning toward starting taper in mid-November

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Richmond Federal Reserve President Tom Barkin said Friday he was leaning toward supporting a decision to start slowing down the central bank’s bond purchases in November, but suggested he hasn’t made a final decision.

Minutes of the last Fed policy meeting showed that officials generally agreed it was time to start pulling back their stimulus and they discussed starting the so-called “tapering” either in mid-November or mid-December.

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