At a meeting held mid-month, Fed Chair Powell, the central bank of the United States, announced that he would lift the zero interest rate policy and raise interest rates.

Although the economic outlook is uncertain due to the situation in Ukraine, it has maintained its stance of pushing for record inflation control.

Fed Chair Powell attended a hearing in the House of Representatives on the 2nd, saying that the situation in Ukraine "the conflict has caused great hardship to the Ukrainian people. The impact on the Ukrainian economy is also extremely unclear." Pointed out.



On the other hand, regarding the lifting of the zero interest rate policy, Chair Powell said, "Inflation may be under further upward pressure. It is appropriate to raise interest rates at a meeting two weeks later."



The United States has been hit by inflation for the first time in 40 years due to the turmoil in the supply network due to the strong recovery of demand, and in order to tackle this suppression, it maintains the conventional stance of raising the policy interest rate, which had been suppressed to 0% in real terms, for two years. It is a shape.



However, Chair Powell said that he would propose 0.25%, which is the range of normal rate hikes, at this month's meeting on how to proceed with rate hikes that are wary of financial markets, and expressed his intention to respond while carefully assessing the impact of the situation in Ukraine. I did.