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US stocks hit after Jay Powell’s hawkish interest rate comments

US stocks hit after Jay Powell’s hawkish interest rate comments

Wall Street stocks declined and the yield on short-term US government debt soared after Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell warned that the central bank could more aggressively raise interest rates if the economy grows too quickly.

Powell’s comments sent the yield on the policy-sensitive two-year US Treasury above 5 per cent for the first time since 2007, pushing a closely watched recession indicator to its lowest level since 1981 and…


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