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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation, now raging at a four-decade high and defying the Fed’s efforts so far to tame it

Australian stocks lose their gains despite a rise on Wall Street after the US Federal Reserve increased official interest rates — from between 0.75pc and 1pc to between 1.5pc and 1.75pc — to curb surging inflation, with the move seeing US stocks rally. And the national unemployment rate stayed steady…

Federal Reserve officials raised their main interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point — the biggest increase since 1994 — and signaled they will keep hiking aggressively this year, resorting to drastic measures to restrain the rampant inflation they failed to forecast.

Fed confirms 0.75 percentage-point increase as Americans across country hit hard by rising prices and shortages of key items

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) rebounded a bit from its early week downturn on Wednesday morning ahead of a critical Federal Open Market Committee interest rate decision at 2 p.m. ET. 

Federal Reserve expected to increase cost of borrowing by 0.75 percentage points to curb rising inflation

The Federal Reserve on June 15, 2022, lifted interest rates by 0.75 percentage point, the third hike this year and the largest since 1994. The move is aimed at countering the fastest pace of inflation in over 40 years.

Inflation is at a 40-year high

U.S. stocks entered a bear market, Treasury yields spiked to levels not seen in a decade and the dollar rallied as the fallout from a hot inflation reading continued to rattle global trading already shaken by worries the Federal Reserve will plunge the economy into a recession.