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The chair of the US Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, predicts an annual inflation rate of 4.2 percent in 2021, up from the 3.4 percent forecast in June, dropping to 2.2 percent in 2022. SOUNDBITE
Though US inflation is rising, a temporary spike above two percent will not be enough to make the central bank pull back on stimulus policies, says Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. SOUNDBITE
The nationalist pro-Irish Irish party Sinn Fein says the installing of a nationalist first minister in North Ireland, after the main pro-UK party agreed to endorse a deal with London, will be "a moment of very great significance". Speaking in Belfast, Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald says it will mark "the extent of change that has occurred here in the north and indeed right across Ireland". The The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP agreement with London -- approved on January 30 in an internal vote at a closed-door meeting in Lisburn, near Belfast -- formed a basis to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly, that has been paralysed for nearly two years. SOUNDBITE
French government spokesperson Gabriel Attal predicts that "one million more people" will receive at least one Covid-19 vaccine jab in the country in February, adding to January's 1.4 million to make a total of "2.5 million at the end of February." SOUNDBITE
The International Monetary Fund trimmed the global GDP forecast for 2021 to 5.2 percent, IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath says in the latest World Economic Outlook. SOUNDBITE
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