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The US Federal Reserve announced that it would raise the benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points.

Recently, the rate of increase has slowed as the pace of inflation has slowed somewhat.

Connect with New York to find out more.



Correspondent Kim Jong-won, did you post it as expected by the market?



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Yes, after the two-day monetary policy meeting, the Federal Reserve System announced a rate hike a little while ago, and it was a 0.25 percentage point increase.



As the market predicted, this can be seen as a normal rate hike.



It can be said that the rate of increase has slowed considerably compared to the unprecedentedly strong monetary policy stepping on a giant step, raising it by 0.75 percentage points four times in a row after maintaining zero interest rates.



The interest rate in the US is expressed as a range called the target interval, and as a result,



the US interest rate has risen from 4.5% to 4.75%.



Although the pace of increase has slowed down a lot, it is the highest level in 16 years since 2007.



The reason why the Fed has started to adjust the pace like this is because the inflation rate has recently slowed. In the statement, the Fed used the expression that inflation has eased but is still rising. This is what first appeared in .



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Yes, it seemed that the market wanted to stop raising interest rates at all because of that atmosphere, but I heard that that kind of atmosphere is not the case again?



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Yes, because the timing is the timing, the market is responding sensitively to every word from the Fed.



One more phrasing from the Fed's statement is that continuing to raise interest rates to the target range seems appropriate.



In fact, it is an expression that has been used continuously, but the Fed has stated many times that it will steadily raise interest rates until it reaches the 5% range this year.



Nevertheless, the market was still hoping that it would give a signal to stop rising inflation.



So this time, this expression was a bit out of the statement, but the Fed once again nailed it to continue raising interest rates.



The reason the Fed thinks this way is because of an overheated labor market in the first place.



Recently, there are news that big tech companies are mass layoffs, but the job shortage continues.



That's why I decided to raise the interest rate a little more.



On the other hand, experts believe that the US economic growth rate, which was not so bad while coming out higher than the expert forecast, is also giving room for an interest rate hike.



After the yeonjun announced like this, the new york jeungsi all 3 s index rose a little today.



In the end, it seems possible that the Fed will cut interest rates only when the inflation rate, which has been emphasized every time, comes down to the 2% range.



Today, as the US adjusted the pace of interest rate hikes, the difference between Korea's base interest rate and the US's base rate has been maintained at 1.25 percentage points.



The Bank of Korea seems to be able to ease the burden of raising interest rates a little.



(Video coverage: Lee Sang-wook)