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Powell reinforces expectations of sharp rate hike next month
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                                                                                                 Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, right, participate in the discussion on the global economy during the Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, April 21. The Federal Reserve must move faster than it has in the past to rein in high inflation, Powell said Thursday. EPA-Yonhap
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, right, participate in the discussion on the global economy during the Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, April 21. The Federal Reserve must move faster than it has in the past to rein in high inflation, Powell said Thursday. EPA-Yonhap

The Federal Reserve must move faster than it has in the past to rein in high inflation, Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday, signaling that sharp interest rate increases are likely in the coming months, beginning at the Fed's next policy meeting in May.

In a panel discussion held by the International Monetary Fund during its spring meetings, Powell also suggested that ''there's something in the idea of front-loading'' aggressive rate hikes as the Fed grapples with inflation that has reached a four-decade high.

''So that does point in the direction of (a half-point rate increase) being on the table'' for the Fed's policy meeting May 3 and 4, Powell said. Typically in the past, the Fed has raised its benchmark short-term rate by more modest quarter-point increments. When the Fed raises its rate, it often leads to higher borrowing costs for people and businesses, including those seeking to buy homes, cars and other costly goods.

Wall Street investors already expect the Fed to raise its key rate by a half-point at its next three meetings, including those that will occur in June and July. Powell's comments Thursday underscored those expectations. That would be the fastest tightening since 1994, when the Fed raised its rate by 1.25 percentage points over the course of three meetings.

Powell's comments caused stocks to shed early gains and sell off in the afternoon, with the SP 500 falling 1.5 percent by the close of trading.

Last month, the Fed implemented its first rate hike in more than three years, raising its target rate to a range of 0.25 percent to 0.5 percent. Expectations for sharp rate increases have risen quickly, reflecting the steady surge in inflation. As recently as December, Fed officials had penciled in just three quarter-point rate hikes this year.

Fed officials had hoped that inflation would mostly fall on its own as supply chain snarls and shortages of items such as semiconductors unraveled, but those ''expectations have disappointed,'' Powell said.

                                                                                                 Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, right, participate in the discussion on the global economy during the Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, April 21. The Federal Reserve must move faster than it has in the past to rein in high inflation, Powell said Thursday. EPA-Yonhap
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde talks during the Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, April 21. EPA-Yonhap

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By contrast, Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), who took part in Thursday's discussion, sounded a much more cautious note. Inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro reached 7.5 percent last month, compared with a year earlier, the highest level since records began in 1997.

Yet Europe's economy faces a greater threat from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has sent food and particularly energy prices on the continent soaring and has weighed more on its economic growth than in the United States.

Lagarde said the ECB, at its next meeting in June, would decide when to end its program of bond purchases, which are intended to lower long-term interest rates. The Fed completed a similar effort in March. The ECB has set the July to September quarter as a target to stop buying bonds but hasn't been more specific.

One reason for Lagarde's caution, she said, is that about half of Europe's inflation is driven by high energy prices. Typically, interest rate policies can do little about such supply shocks.

''Our economies are moving at a different pace,'' Lagarde said, referring to Europe and the United States, where growth has been faster. ''Our inflation is fed by different components.''

In his remarks, Powell said the Fed wants to ''expeditiously'' raise its benchmark rate to a neutral level, meaning a level that neither encourages nor restrains economic growth. Fed officials now consider a rate of between 2.25 percent and 2.5 percent to be roughly neutral. That's 2 percentage points above its current level.

The Fed could raise rates beyond neutral, Powell said, to a level that would slow the economy ― ''if that turns out to be appropriate'' to stem high inflation.

How quickly the Fed should lift rates to a point they start to restrain the economy could be a point of debate among policymakers in the coming months. On Wednesday, Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said that rates ''will probably end up'' above neutral by next year.

But Mary Daly, president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve, suggested Wednesday that once the Fed lifted rates to a level that no longer encouraged or restricted growth, it should proceed cautiously.

''If we slam the brakes on the economy by adjusting rates too quickly or too much, we risk ... potentially tipping the economy into recession,'' Daly said. (AP)


 
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