The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the US Federal Reserve System (FRS) has decided unanimously approve an increase in interest rates countries by 25 basis points until they are placed within the target range of 4.50% to 4.75%, as reported this Wednesday.

market The US workforce created 223,000 jobs during the last month of December. For his part, unemployment fell by two-tenths to 3.5%, according to the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Thus, Unemployment restores the minimum reached level before the pandemic and which was also the lowest in several decades.

the country’s economy has gone through growth of 0.7% of GDP in the fourth quarter and 2.1% overall for 2022, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA, its English acronym) showed.

Similarly, the personal consumption price index, the Fed’s preferred variable for monitoring inflation, was 5% year-on-year in December last year. five tenths less than the previous monthR. The monthly rate increased by 0.1% unchanged from the previous month.

The underlying variable, which excludes energy and food prices from the calculation due to their greater volatility, was 4.4%, down three tenths.