Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Inflationary pressures are fueling bets on faster Fed rate hikes

Fed

Fed policymakers had already all but promised half-point interest rate hikes at their meeting next week and again in late July. That would be more policy tightening in the space of three months than the Fed did in all of 2018. The central bank could even ditch its own forward guidance. Tenaciously hot U.S. expansion … Read more

Possible US job boom in December lynchpin to Fed rate hikes

US

WASHINGTON: The American economy is likely to saw strong job gains in the final month of 2021, which could shorten the timeline for the US central bank to raise interest rates. The Federal Reserve has been setting the stage to increase borrowing costs more aggressively to rein in growing inflation, and that prospect sent markets into … Read more