07-01-2022, 07:06 AM
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
https://www.straitstimes.com/business/ec...rest-rates
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
https://www.straitstimes.com/business/ec...rest-rates