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PUBLISHED JAN 6, 2022, 1:11 PM SGT


MCLEAN, VIRGINIA (BLOOMBERG) - Federal Reserve officials are preparing to move faster than their previous round of tightening to keep a high-inflation and near-full-employment economy from overheating, leaving behind the gradualism that marked the central bank's approach in the prior decade.

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It comes after the 5.7 per cent annual increase in the Fed's preferred inflation gauge in November overshot officials' 2 per cent target for the ninth consecutive month


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