Hiking Fed policy rate beyond 2.5% is ‘open question,’ says Daly – Reuters
April 21, 2022San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly poses at the bank’s headquarters in San Francisco, California, U.S., July 16, 2019. REUTERS/Ann Saphir/File Photo
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April 21 (Reuters) – San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly on Thursday said she supports raising the U.S. central bank’s target for overnight borrowing costs to 2.5% by the end of this year, but whether or how much further it will need to rise will depend on what happens with inflation and labor markets.
Daly’s support for a path of policy tightening that would bring borrowing costs to the Fed’s estimate of the neutral level in nine months has helped cement expectations in recent weeks for interest rate hikes in bigger-than-usual 50 basis-point increments at the Fed’s next couple of policy meetings.
“Is it 50, is it 25, is it 75? Those are things that I’ll deliberate with my colleagues, but my own starting point is we don’t want to go so quickly or so abruptly that we surprise Americans” already dealing with 40-year-high inflation, Daly told Yahoo Finance.
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