Fed’s Bullard says boost to dollar from rate hikes may ease

2022.10.15 15:09

Fed’s Bullard says boost to dollar from rate hikes may ease

Budrigannews.com – The Federal Reserve’s rapid interest rate increases have contributed to the strength of the dollar against other currencies, but that may ease once the U.S. central bank reaches the point of pausing the rate hikes, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said on Saturday.

Fed policy “has produced a stronger currency,” Bullard said at a monetary policy panel on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in Washington. That may ease once the Fed gets rates to a place “where the committee thinks we’re putting meaningful downward pressure on inflation,” so rates don’t need to continue rising, he said.

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Fed’s Bullard says boost to dollar from rate hikes may ease