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With an 'Aggressive' Fed Rate Hike Expected Next Week, Stocks and Crypto Markets Lose Billions
Fed Expected to Raise Benchmark Interest Rate Aggressively, Dutch Bank ING Predicts a 50bp Hike and a QE Tightening Announcement “U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers look set to deliver a series of aggressive interest rate hikes at least until the summer to deal with hot inflation and surging labor costs, even as two reports Friday showed tentative signs both may be cresting,” the report explains.
In addition to the Reuters report, the Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation ING Group believes a big hike will come this Wednesday. In the, ING expects the FOMC and Fed Chair Jerome Powell to announce a 50 basis point rise. ING’s report says that “inflation worries outweigh temporary GDP dip.”
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