Is the Fed Done Raising Rates?

Four factors to watch as officials consider pausing interest-rate increases

Inflation is slowly easing, but it is still far from the Fed’s target. WSJ’s Nick Timiraos explains how 2% became the central bank’s sweet spot. Photo illustration: Preston Jessee

Federal Reserve officials this week raised interest rates to a 16-year high and signaled they might be done increasing them for now. But they didn’t say exactly how they will know when they have reached that point.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said at a Wednesday news conference that policy makers will base the decision “on the totality of incoming data and their implications for the outlook for economic activity and inflation.” 

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