Fed halts rate cutting after late-year growth

Thursday, January 31, 2002

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy, jolted last fall by the terrorist attacks, managed to eke out a small increase in the final three months of the year in a surprising sign that the recession could be ending.

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