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The US Federal Reserve is keeping watch over troubles in the US banking sector to gauge the need for further rate hikes, said a top official of the US central bank on Friday, reported Anadolu.
“A rapid, sizeable increase in interest rates resulting from persistently elevated inflation contributed to stresses in the banking system that we needed to address using our financial stability tools,“ he added. Waller, however, noted that although lending conditions imposed by banks have tightened since March, “it is still not clear that recent strains in the banking sector materially intensified the tightening of lending conditions.”
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