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Fed may need to stay patient on rates until summer, Bostic signals

"There's a lot of transition that's happening, and in the midst of this transition it's hard to know exactly where things are going to land," Bostic said at an event hosted by the Birmingham Business Journal. The Federal Reserve will hold its next policy-setting meeting on March 18-19. President Donald Trump, since his January inauguration, has introduced a series of tariff actions followed by partial rollbacks or reprieves that have whipsawed industry and financial markets and contributed to financial market bets on earlier and additional Fed rate cuts.