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With the March jobs report on tap Friday, and in the wake of dovish comments from Fed Chief Janet Yellen, some wonder whether the 'bad news is good news' narrative will overtake the Street once again.

Positive momentum from Tuesday’s Janet Yellen-fueled market rally carried through to Wednesday as U.S. equities continued to move modestly higher.

Investors worried the Federal Reserve would potentially move too quickly on rate hikes following its decision to raise the federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point in December can rest easy.

Wall Street swung into positive territory on Tuesday after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the central bank should proceed "cautiously" on raising interest rates.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Tuesday that global risks were not expected to have a deep impact on the United States but that it was still appropriate for the Fed to proceed "cautiously" in hiking interest rates.

The U.S. economy remains on track for a gradual path of interest rate hikes and fears over the impact of a slowing global economy and bouts of financial volatility are overdone, San Francisco Federal Reserve President John Williams said on Tuesday.

The U.S. dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Tuesday, as European investors returned from an Easter break, with the focus on a speech by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen who could lay the ground for interest rates hikes later this year.

U.S. voters should consider the importance of an economic policy refresh. 

Mixed economic data will complicate the Fed's rate-hike decision at this week's meeting.

There may not be enough fresh data on inflation to support another rate hike by March, Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart said.

Chicago Fed President Charles Evans said that stubbornly low inflation may keep interest rates lower in 2016 and beyond than some have forecasted.

Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s December gathering showed the decision to hike rates was a “close call.”

Watchers of the Federal Reserve believe Chair Janet Yellen’s toughest job may be corralling the disparate voices within the FOMC and getting all of them on the same page for big decisions -- which she did in December.

Analysts believe much of how the stock market reacts to higher interest rates in 2016 will likely depend on how the Federal Reserve communicates future rate hikes in the new year.

The FOMC is creating a divide among the nation's savers and debtors with the first interest rate hike in nearly a decade.   

Yale University Economics Professor Robert Shiller on the Federal Reserve, economy and housing market.

The historic decision marks the final break from an era of unprecedented interventionist monetary policy initiated in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

If the Fed approves the first interest rate hike in nearly a decade, the focus will move from the timing of the hike and to the trajectory of future rate hikes, likely to happen in 2016.

Unless something extraordinary occurs between now and then, the Fed will almost certainly raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade next week.

Goldman Sachs released a report predicting that wage growth will “accelerate” next year, a narrative that fits into the Fed’s likely plan to raise interest rates.