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For the first time in many days, USA Today relegates EgyptAir to the off-lead, leading instead with the Fed's quarter-point hike in short-term interest rates, a story off-leaded by the NYT , the LAT , and the Post . Wall Street reacted favorably to the decision by the Fed, which cited tightening labor markets.
The 199-point jump in the Dow Jones industrial average came amid anticipation of a quarter-point raise in short-term interest rates.
You might assume that the quarter-point hike means the Fed isn't that worried about inflation, even though there are signs that continued strong demand and tight labor markets are beginning to make themselves felt.
I do not think we underestimate the severity of the problems with which we are dealing," and then says that investors widely took this as indicating the quarter-point rate cut.
But as today's quarter-point hike in the discount rate--in addition to the expected quarter-point hike in the federal funds rate--demonstrates, the Fed has, at some point in the last five years or so, come to see inflation-fighting as not merely a matter of raising or lowering rates.