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U.S. raises interest rate again but hints that hiking policy may soon pivot

U.S. raises interest rate again but hints that hiking policy may soon pivot

CBC
Thursday, November 3, 2022 1:23 PM GMT

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by three quarters of a percentage point on Wednesday.

The move was widely expected, as the U.S. central bank continues its fight to tame high inflation. 

While the move will raise the top end of its range to four per cent, the central bank also signaled that it may be getting closer to the end of the current cycle of rate hikes.

The bank said in a statement accompanying the decision that it will take into account the "cumulative tightening of monetary policy" in making its rate decisions from now on.

That's the bank's way of saying that after having raised its rate five times in barely six months, it is getting closer to leaving the policy rate where it is while it assesses the impact of its increases so far.

David Rosenberg, an economist with Rosenberg research, said the Fed's statement clearly suggests the central bank is starting to "pivot" from rate hikes to having to cut rates again.

"The Fed had to say that it still anticipates more rate hikes in order to continue to flex its inflation-fighting muscles, but it said pretty well the same thing in the summer of 2007 and the next thing you know… circumstances changed and forced them to ease," he said in a note to clients. "As the effects of the cumulative tightening percolate through the data in early 2023, the Fed will be done," he said.

The Fed did its best in its statement to make it clear that it doesn't think it's finished hiking quite yet.

"Ongoing increases in the target range will be appropriate," the central bank said.

"That means officials don't yet believe that rates are sufficiently restrictive to do the job," economist Royce Mendes at Desjardins said of the statement. "That said, they don't give any hints about how much further rates need to rise."

Katherine Judge, an economist at CIBC, viewed the Fed's statement as leaning more toward slowing down hikes entirely. 

The bank drawing attention to the lag in the impact that previous rate hikes have had "will give officials a platform to stop hiking rates while inflation is still high," she said.

The U.S. central bank is one of many around the world scrambling to get ahead of runaway inflation.

After slashing its rate to functionally zero in the early days of the pandemic, two years later, central banks around the world are aggressively raising their lending rates to cool demand for goods and services.

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