This is a comparison of Wednesday's Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed's previous policymaking meeting in January.

Text removed from the January statement is in red with a horizontal line through the middle.

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Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined.

Black text appears in both statements.

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