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Fed's Dudley (voter): Monetary policy adjustments are likely to be gradual and cautious; more needs to be done on regulatory front - opening remarks at Economics Conference 
- Labor market conditions have significantly improved over the past few years
- Housing is recovering, banking is much healthier and the corporate sector is highly profitable, even as business fixed investment spending remains quite weak.
- Although inflation has fallen short of our objective, I am confident that inflation will return to our 2 percent objective over the next few years 
- After years at the effective lower bound for short-term interest rates, economic conditions have finally warranted the start of U.S. monetary policy normalization.
- EU is experiencing a cyclical recovery and the unemployment rate has been steadily declining over the past two years. The end of fiscal tightening appears to be a key factor in this recovery.
- The risks of low inflation remain a concern for the ECB