Interest rates in the European Union will need to stay high “as long as necessary” to slow still-high inflation, Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, said Friday.
The Federal Reserve said it doesn’t plan to cut interest rates until it has “greater confidence” that price increases are slowing sustainably.
Real interest rates to stay higher than in US, EuropeJerusalem Post Staff
infrastructure needs, restructuring of trade and remilitarization of the world," Dimon said in a statement along with the bank'ssecond-quarter results. "Therefore, inflation and interest rates may stay higher than the market expects."
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FED SKIPS AN INTEREST RATE HIKE, BUT HIGH MORTGAGE RATES COULD BE HERE TO STAY Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attends a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 21, 2022.(Chen Mengtong/China News Service via Getty Images / Getty ...
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