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Thursday, March 17, 2022

US Fed Raises Interest Rates for First Time Since 2018 to Stem Inflation

The US Federal Reserve announced a quarter-percentage point interest rate increase on Wednesday, nearly two years to the day the central bank slashed its benchmark federal funds rate to zero amid the recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s clearly time to raise interest rates,” said US Fed chairman Jerome Powell at a press conference […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.


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