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Fed’s Powell pledges to prevent inflation from becoming ‘entrenched’ -Breaking

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© Reuters. FILEPHOTO: Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve Chairman, speaks during the hearing by Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee at Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, U.S., September 28, 20,21. Kevin Dietsch/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell promised to “prevent higher inflation becoming entrenched” during comments he prepared for Tuesday’s congressional hearing. The high rate of price rises is expected to be a key topic.

In his opening remarks to the Senate Banking Committee, Powell didn’t mention explicitly the U.S. central banks plans to raise interest rates in the briefings.

However, he pointed out that during the pandemic outbreak, the economy faced “persistent supply-demand imbalances”, and that high inflation had “exactly a toll,” in particular on the poor.

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