The correction in the US housing market will “probably persist longer than previously anticipated”, Federal Reserve policymakers judged at their last meeting, according to minutes released on Wednesday reports the Financial Times. The minutes show that Fed officials meeting on May 9 were concerned by the decline in new home sales and the rise in the inventory of unsold homes relative to the rate of turnover.

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