
The Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee voted unanimously to double the reduction in its monthly bond purchases to $30bn a month, meaning that the stimulus will now retire in March.
Importantly, though the committee chose to keep interest rates stationary, it predicted three rate hikes in 2022, a sharp increase from previous expectations. Analysts were not surprised by the decision...
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