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US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke smiles before the start of the IMF meeting in Washington on April 21
Nicholas Kamm
US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke smiles before the start of the IMF meeting in Washington on April 21. The US Federal Reserve held firm to existing economic stimulus at a meeting Wednesday, as they tracked the "moderately" expanding path of a three-year-old US economic recovery.