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The US raised the key interest rate by 0.75 percentage points again last night.

You've already taken the giant step four times in a row, so let's find out more about it by connecting to New York.



Correspondent Kim Jong-won, is this the first time that the United States has taken such a giant step by 0.75 percentage points?



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Yes, the fourth time in a row is unprecedented.



This is because, no matter how steeply raising interest rates, they do not think that inflation will catch up.



The United States, which maintained zero interest rates right after the Corona crisis in March 2020, started raising interest rates in March of this year and raised the interest rate by 3.75% points in just eight months. That's why I set it as a range.



This brings the base rate range from 3.75% to 4%, the first time in 15 years that US interest rates have been this high.



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There are concerns about the widening interest rate gap with Korea. What is the future outlook?



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Yes, the last monetary policy meeting was in September, when the US raised interest rates, and interest rates in Korea and the US had already reversed.



The Bank of Korea hastily raised the interest rate in one big step, 0.5 percentage points, and narrowed the difference to 0.25 percentage points, but today (3rd) this difference widened again to 1 percentage point.



With such a wide interest rate gap, there are growing concerns that foreign capital will flow to the US and the won will depreciate. can be reduced, he said.



Let's hear it.



[Jerome Powell/Federal Reserve Chairman: One day it will be appropriate to slow the rate of rate hikes.

And that time is coming.

Perhaps such a decision may be made at the next Monetary Policy Meeting (December) at the earliest, or maybe even at the next meeting.]



However, I made it clear that this means that we can control the rate of rate hike, not that we will stop. He added that interest rates will be higher than previously expected.



Because of this word during today's Chair Powell's press conference, the New York Stock Exchange closed with a 3.4% drop on the Nasdaq.