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The US Federal Reserve has voted to hold interest rates at a 22-year high for a second straight meeting. "Today we decided to leave our policy interest rate unchanged," announces Fed chair Jerome Powell. SOUNDBITE
US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announces that the US Federal Reserve has voted to keep interest rates at a 22-year high, between 5.25 percent and 5.50 percent. SOUNDBITE
Fed Chair Jerome Powell announces a quarter-point raise in the US Federal Reserve's benchmark lending rate, "in order to attain a stance of monetary policy that is sufficiently restrictive to return inflation to two percent over time." SOUNDBITE
Federal Reserve keeps US interest rates unchanged