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US Fed's inflation fight remains on track despite recent uptick: Powell
US Fed's inflation fight remains on track despite recent uptick: Powell
Economy
by  AFP

The recent rise in US inflation hasn't stalled the Federal Reserve's ongoing fight against rising prices, Fed chair Jerome Powell said Friday, shortly after the publication of fresh government data. He said that while the recent inflation data were higher than the Fed would have liked, the February figures were "definitely more along the lines of what we want to see."