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President-elect Donald Trump may have campaigned hard against high inflation, but by the time of his Nov. 5 election victory financial professionals had moved on from rising prices and begun worrying about rising U.S. debt, possible recession, and risks to global trade as among the top threats to the stability of the financial sector, according to a new Federal Reserve survey released on Friday. These concerns have also been reflected in recent bond market behavior, with yields on 10-year Treasury notes, for instance, rising sharply over the last two months despite the Fed having cut its benchmark lending rate twice by a total of 75 basis points.

The two discussed the matter this week at Mar-a-Lago, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Reserve on Friday announced plans for a May 15-16 conference and public "Fed Listens" events around the country as part of a review of its long-run strategy and approach to policymaking. "We are open to new ideas and critical feedback and will take onboard lessons from the last five years and adapt our approach where appropriate to best serve the American people, to whom we are accountable," Fed Chair Jerome Powell said in a statement. Notably the statement said the Fed's 2% inflation goal "will not be a focus of the review," a likely disappointment to some in academic and policy analysis circles who feel the specification of a target, and the level at which it is set, have become problems for the central bank.

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