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Financial markets are pricing in ongoing aggressive rate increases from the Federal Reserve in coming months, and that means they are getting the right message from Fed policymakers, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday.

“Financial conditions have tightened and have priced in a string of additional rate increases, and that’s appropriate. The market has been reading our reaction function reasonably well,” he told U.S. senators. “What you’ll see is continued expeditious progress toward higher rates. The center of the committee wrote down that rates would be between 3% and 3.5% by the end of this year.”

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Financial markets are pricing in ongoing aggressive rate increases from the Federal Reserve in coming months, and that means they are getting the right message from Fed policymakers, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday.

“Financial conditions have tightened and have priced in a string of additional rate increases, and that’s appropriate. The market has been reading our reaction function reasonably well,” he told U.S. senators. “What you’ll see is continued expeditious progress toward higher rates. The center of the committee wrote down that rates would be between 3% and 3.5% by the end of this year.”

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