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FED: Chicago Fed's Evans interviewed on CNBC, says Fed pretty comfortable with
where they are at the moment with jobs market strong for instance, but
'uncertainty for sure', with weaker business investment.
- Says a little nervous that inflation underrunning 2% objective. 
- Says long-end Tsy yield fall suggests investors are responding to increased
uncertainty over the international environment. Doesn't necessarily mean that US
economy is weakening but "we need to look at the data".
- Says markets seeing something that he is not seeing. If there is more
nervousness he would take that on board but with inflation being on the light
side there is the capacity to adjust policy if that's necessary.
- Says the magnitudes of the one-off increases in prices via tariffs are easily
manageable, and the Fed can look through that.

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