"Given what we've seen recently, I think we just have to wait
and see," George told Fox Business Network in an interview that
aired on Thursday.
While softening her stance, George made clear she was not ruling
out the possibility she would support a rate increase as early
as September. "I don’t want to take too much signal from
something that could turn out to be noise. I don’t want to
overreact to short-term data that may not in the long term
really turn out to be significant for that kind of decision,"
she said.
(Reporting by Timothy Ahmann; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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