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Powell Says Rates to Be Raised ‘Purposefully’ to Curb Inflation

Powell Says Rates to Be Raised ‘Purposefully’ to Curb Inflation

(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said officials were determined to curb inflation after they raised interest rates by 75 basis points for a third straight time and signaled even more aggressive hikes in the future than expected by investors. Most Read from Bloomberg “We are moving our policy stance purposefully to a level that will be sufficiently restrictive to return inflation to 2%,” he told a press conference in Washington on Wednesday after officials lifted the… Source link

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