CommSec’s Tom Piotrowski says US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell released a text of a speech he’s going to make, which spoke of the possibility of the central bank moderating their pace of rate hikes.
“The markets had been hoping for something like this with mixed success
over the course of the last couple of weeks,” he told Sky News Australia.
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