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Inflation Boosts Chances for Surprise Rate Hike

June 13, 2022 at 3:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A string of troubling inflation reports in recent days is likely to lead Federal Reserve officials to consider surprising markets with a larger-than-expected 0.75-percentage-point interest rate increase at their meeting this week,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

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