WASHINGTON: The US economy continues to expand and is now seeing tight labor markets and rising price pressures, as businesses nationwide have an upbeat outlook for 2017, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.

“Firms across the country and industries were said to be optimistic about growth in 2017,” the Fed’s Beige Book survey of the economy said.

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