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Powell: Ongoing Assessment If Rate Is Sufficiently Restrictive

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  • Q: The statement dropped "sufficiently restrictive", do you feel this current rate is sufficiently restrictive?
  • A: That's an ongoing assessment. It is not possible to say that with confidence now. But in the March SEP, the median participant though this was the appropriate high level of rates, we don't know that. We'll revisit that in June. Before we really declare that, I think we're going to have to see data accumulating and make that as an ongoing assessment.
  • Powell notes in a follow up that the Senior Loan Officer Survey is set to be released May 8n, and is broadly consistent with what they see from other sources, ie Beige Book and earnings calls, with mid-size banks tightening lending standards.

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