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I-Federal Reserve Inyukile i-Benchmark Bank Rate nge-75bps ukuya edabini lokunyuka kwamaxabiso
The U.S. Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate on Wednesday afternoon by three-quarters of a percentage point. The central bank’s move follows the consumer price index (CPI) report last week that showed U.S. inflation jumped last month by 8.3% per annum.
Fed Raises Federal Funds Rate by 75bps anticipates ‘Ongoing Increases’
On September 21, 2022, the U.S. central bank and Fed chair Jerome Powell increased the benchmark bank rate by 75 basis points (bps). The Fed’s federal funds rate is now coasting along at 3.25%. The decision follows the recent Ingxelo yeCPI published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Fed officials like Powell phawula that that the American economy may feel “some pain.”
The Fed’s 75bps rate hike is the third three-quarters of a percentage point raise in a row. During the last rate hike, senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) wathi if the Fed wasn’t careful the central bank could “trigger a devastating recession.”
Ngaphambi kokuba 75bps ukunyuka kwesantya in July, the U.S. central bank yanda the federal funds rate by three-quarters of a percentage point on June 15, 2022. It was the largest Fed rate hike since 1994 when the 13th chair of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan codified the 75bps hike that year.
On Wednesday, the Fed wathi: “The committee seeks to achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of 2 percent over the longer run. In support of these goals, the committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 3 to 3-1/4 percent and anticipates that ongoing increases in the target range will be appropriate.”
The Fed added:
The committee’s assessments will take into account a wide range of information, including readings on public health, labor market conditions, inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and financial and international developments.
Many investors and economists believe the rate hike was priced in already by markets. Prior to the Fed’s three-quarters of a percentage point hike, a few economists and analysts predicted there was a slight chance the U.S. central bank would raise the rate by a full-percentage-point (100bps).
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