US Interest Rates Remain High Despite Prospective Rate Cuts

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US Interest Rates Remain High Despite Prospective Rate Cuts
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Despite ongoing wars, credit rating downgrades, and a growing debt burden, the US dollar has regained its strength. Nonfarm payrolls increased and inflation has gone down, indicating a strong US economy.

Despite prospective rate cuts this year, US interest rates are still at the highs after the Federal Reserve ’s unprecedented monetary tightening .Despite the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, Fitch’s credit rating downgrade of the US, the lowering of the US credit rating outlook to negative by Moody’s and a growing US debt burden, the US dollar has regained its strength. After declining to its recent low of 100.62 in December last year, the US dollar index is now at 104.29.

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