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October 2023

Miscellanea

By Jhankhana Thakkar , Chirag Chauhan
Chartered Accountants
Reading Time 7 mins

I. WORLD NEWS — ECONOMY

1. Two Fed Officials Suggest That Interest Rates Will Rise Again

In their first comments since the Federal Reserve Bank decided to keep the US key interest rate unchanged this week, officials from the bank signaled that the hiking cycle hasn't ended.

Fed Governor Michelle Bowman and Boston Fed President Susan Collins both warned in separate events that inflation is still a threat.

"Inflation is still too high, and I expect it will likely be appropriate for the Committee to raise rates further and hold them at a restrictive level for some time to return inflation to our 2 per cent goal in a timely way," Bowman said in a speech at an event of the Independent Community Bankers of Colorado in Vail. "I see a continued risk that energy prices could rise further and reverse some of the progress we have seen on inflation in recent months."

Bowman said that, according to economic projections assessed by the FOMC, inflation will stay above the Fed's 2 per cent "at least until the end of 2025."

The Fed's Federal Open Market Committee voted on Wednesday to maintain the benchmark rate in the range of 5.25 p

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