WASHINGTON: The US economic outlook is strong and has grown more robust since December, when Congress approved massive tax cuts, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said in his debut congressional appearance Tuesday.

While his prepared testimony stuck to the policy of “further gradual increases” in the benchmark lending rate,

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