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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is again Thursday on Capitol Hill, providing to the Senate Banking Committee his second day of congressionally mandated testimony on the state of the economic system and financial coverage.
In an look Wednesday earlier than the Home Monetary Companies Committee, the central financial institution chief reiterated that he expects rate of interest cuts later this 12 months however didn’t specify when. As a substitute, he stated coverage strikes will rely upon incoming knowledge, and there is not sufficient proof but that inflation is headed again to the Fed’s 2% purpose.
Together with hits overview, he confronted questions from committee members largely centered on the right calibration of financial coverage, in addition to his views on proposed financial institution capital guidelines often known as the Basel III Endgame.
The testimony is Powell’s final scheduled public look earlier than the subsequent Fed assembly on March 19-20.
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