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This is a comparison of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed’s previous policymaking meeting on Dec. 14.Text removed from the December statement is in red with a horizontal line through the middle.Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in…

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point and gave little indication that it is nearing the end of this hiking cycle. Aligning with market expectations, the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee boosted the federal funds rate by 0.25…

Don’t expect a rate cut in 2023, Powell saysJerome Powell said he doesn’t expect the Fed to cut rates this year, as some major strategists project.”Given our outlook, I don’t see us cutting rates this year, if our outlook comes true,” the Fed chair said.Powell…

NatWest chief executive Alison Rose has refused to attend a hearing of the House of Commons Treasury select committee next week, telling MPs that she is “too busy” ahead of the state-backed bank’s full-year results, according to people briefed on the dispute.Committee chair Harriett Baldwin…

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