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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Graeme Wearden

Fight against inflation raises spectre of global recession

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as the US Federal Reserve announces a hike in interest rates.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as the US Federal Reserve announces a hike in interest rates. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images

The fight against inflation intensified this week as central banks stepped up their efforts to cool rising prices, and a global recession could be the price we pay.

Investors reeled from the biggest rise in US interest rates in almost three decades, before Switzerland piled in with a shock increase in its borrowing costs, topped off by the fifth rise in a row from the Bank of England.

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