### Instruction: Extract causal economic narratives from the input text below! A causal economic narrative is a pair of events where one event causes the other event. State all narratives contained in the input text in one of the following forms: 'event A - "causes" - event B' or 'event A - "caused by" - event B'.
### Input: The language in the statement marked a significant change from December, when the central bank was saying that "further gradual increases" in rates would likely be necessary. There should be exactly 5 paragraphs separated by the markdown divider: ***.
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