US Central Bank Raises Rates by Half a Percentage Point, Fed’s Powell Says Si...
The U.S. Federal Reserve raised the benchmark interest rate on Wednesday and the increase was the biggest rate hike in two decades. “Inflation is much too high,” the central bank’s chair Jerome Powell said after the Fed raised rates by 0.5%. FOMC Decides to Hike Rate by 3/4 to 1% — Increase Was the largest Rate Hike in 2 Decades On May 4, 2022, the U.S. central bank raised the benchmark interest rate in order to curb rising inflation. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) explained on Wednesday in a press release that the 12 FOMC members “decided to....
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The BoE has become the first major central bank to raise interest rates since the pandemic by hiking its basic rates to 0.25%.
Facing a weakening peso, Mexico raised interest rates on Thursday. Banco de Mexico, the nation’s central bank, raised its rate by half a percentage point to 4.25%, higher than projected. According to Jose Rodriguez, VP of Payments for cryptocurrency exchange Bitso, this is because the peso has fallen on hard times and is performing poorly against other currencies. He says: “Mexican peso has had one of the worst slumps, without having an internal financial crisis like in 1994 with the "Tequila effect". Becoming one of the worst performing currencies in the last months against....