Fed chair, Jerome Powell gave one of two testimonies scheduled for this week yesterday, striking a hawkish tone. Powell warned that the central bank “will continue to make decisions meeting by meeting, based on the totality of incoming data and their implications for the outlook for economic activity and inflation, as well as the balance of risks”.
Powell’s comments reaffirmed the Fed’s commitment to bringing inflation down.
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