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US Fed raises interest rate a quarter point amid high inflation

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announces a quarter-point increase in the benchmark interest rate to bring rising inflation under control, the first rate hike since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. SOUNDBITE

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