WASHINGTON: Federal Reserve on Wednesday cleanses a way to reduce the purchase of monthly bonds “immediately” and an increase in interest rates caused to follow faster than expected, with nine of 18 US central bank police which project loan costs will increase in 2022.
Acts , which was included in the latest Fed policy statements and separate economic projections, representing the slope of Hawkish by the central bank who saw inflation running at 4.2%, more than double the target, and positioned himself to act against it.
The action can run slowly, with interest rates seen up to 1% in 2023, faster than the Fed projected in its project in June, and then to 1.8% in 2024, which will still be considered a loose monetary policy attitude .
Inflation all the time it will be allowed to run slightly above the target of 2% Fed, consistent with its new and more tolerant approach to price increases, while unemployment is seen falling back to the lowest pre-pandemic lows of 3.5%.
However, this shift shows the movement among policy makers divided into whether the impact of the coronavirus pandemic racer on the economy or the threat of breakout inflation is a greater risk.
The Fed on Wednesday held the current target rate stable in the range of 0% to 0.25%.
US stocks extended the increase after the release of the statement, with the S & P 500 index rose 1.3% on that day.
The dollar was upside down and moved lower, while the results on the 10-year treasury record of the US was slightly lower.
Although recognizing a new surge in Pandemi has slowed the recovery of several parts of the economy, the whole indicator “continues to strengthen,” said the Federal Bank Federal Bank Committee Bank in a round statement.
If the progress continues “extensively as expected, the committee considers that moderation in the rate of purchase of assets might be guaranteed immediately,” he said.
The statement has been widely expected to indicate that the Fed will soon be started along $ 120 billion in the purchase of monthly bonds that have made to blunt the economic impact of the pandemic.
But it is in their broader economic outlook that Fed policy makers make less anticipated changes.
The prospect of inflation surged 0.8 percentage points for 2021 and the unemployment rate seen at the end of this year rose.
In turn, two officials took ahead to 2022 timelines projected to lift the Fed’s last night benchmark from the current level, enough to increase the median projection to 0.3% for next year.