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Fed expects 'ongoing' rate increases needed to curb US inflation

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"We continue to anticipate that ongoing increases will be appropriate in order to retain a stance of monetary policy that is sufficiently restrictive to return inflation to 2 percent over time," US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says after the Fed raised it interest rate by a half percentage point. SOUNDBITE

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