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Fed's Powell says US economic rebound 'can be robust'

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While the US economy is moving "with alarming speed" towards a "very high unemployment" rate, says Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, once businesses can reopen, "there is every reason to believe that the economic rebound, when it comes, can be robust." SOUNDBITE

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