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Fed predicts economy will perform well

The U.S. economy should perform well this year and in 2007 despite higher energy prices, the Federal Reserve said in its 2005 report on Monday.

The U.S. economy should perform well this year and in 2007 despite higher energy prices, the Federal Reserve said in its 2005 report on Monday.

“So long as energy price increases slow, as is suggested by futures prices, this restraint should diminish as 2006 progresses,” the Fed said in the 341-page annual document.

It said core inflation “is likely to remain under some upward pressure in the near term” as costlier energy prices work their way through. “But these cost pressures should wane as the year progresses,” the Fed said.