SAN DIEGO — In 2020, the Federal Reserve is hoping to give patience another try.

The Fed had an active 2019, as officials shifted away from a steady set of interest rate increases to pause before cutting rates three times in the face of trade tensions and global weakness. But at their final meeting last year, Fed officials signaled they plan to keep interest rates unchanged, at least for now.

Fed officials saw their current rate setting “as likely to remain appropriate for a time,” so long as incoming economic information “remained broadly consistent” with the Fed’s outlook for continued solid growth, according to minutes from the central bank’s Dec. 10-11 meeting, released Friday.

Policymakers, including Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, made clear last month that they were comfortable leaving interest rates unchanged. Meeting notes underline that the pause could be an extended one. Officials are waiting to see how last year’s cuts, along with a possible easing of trade tensions, will affect the American economy.

Fed meeting participants “expected sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation near the Committee’s symmetric 2 percent objective,” the minutes show. “This outlook reflected, at least in part, the support provided by the current stance of monetary policy.”