May 3, 2017. Fed keeps rates unchanged.
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
For release at 2:00 p.m. EDT
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March indicates that the . Job gains were solid, on average, in recent months, and the unemployment rate declined. , but the fundamentals underpinning the continued growth of consumption remained solid. . . Excluding energy and food, consumer prices declined in March and inflation continued to run somewhat below 2 percent. Market-based measures of inflation compensation remain low; survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations are little changed, on balance.