(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said the U.S. jobless rate may remain higher than 9 percent at the end of this year, underscoring the potential need to keep interest rates low into 2011.
The unemployment rate may be “nine and a quarter” at the end of 2010, and higher than 7 percent at the end of 2011, Evans said in an interview with Bloomberg Television today in Hong Kong. A government report this week may show the rate was 9.7 percent in March, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey.
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