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follows data suggesting price rises, slowed in november. however, the fed has indicated further hikes are still on the way well let's cross over to new york and to our financial correspondent, yann's court and discuss this bit further. yes it was there anything. 7 surprising, really in what we heard from the fed now up i, i would say there were a couple of things that were quite interesting. i mean, 1st of all, i mean yes, we do see inflation cooling off a little bit. but obviously it's a bit more persistent than what the federal reserve expected just back in september, and that has consequences. so we will probably see of interest rate. so to increase to a bit further, also than expected in september, it will reach somewhere a good 5 percent, probably in the next couple of months. and then that will also have consequences for the labor market. so the federal reserve season unemployment rate of at least 4.6 percent. so that would be an uptick of about one percentage point from where we stand right now. and then also the economic outlook got lowered to about point 5 percent for 2023. meaning, more or less that we will see a standstill when it comes to economic growth for 2023. even if a jerome paul did not want to talk about the recession at this point in markets around the world have been anticipating this. fed rates rise all week, but has it gone down where you are the new york stock exchange? yeah, it has been a pretty wide ride here in the afternoon, especially since jerome thought paul thought it all started talking and we hit the market down by more than $300.00 points in that dollar. johnson leverage and we thought that uptick that went down again. so at the end of the day, blue chips ended the day around $150.00 points lower. not quite them half a percentage point, but i've seen that so often with those days of the federal reserve, a meeting, a traders often need a night and investors to sleep over of what they're heard. so the real reaction to that meeting, we will see that on thursday, yes, i still need to settle in the next quarter in new york for us. thank you very much . but it stay on the fed rates decision and talk about his wide implications, particularly belong beyond the united states. joined by jo cohen, chief economist, the keenan institute at the university of north carolina. thanks a lot for joining us on the to be business of the central banks are going to have been watching the fads today and jerome pals announcement, what will they have taken away from it? i think following up on what your correspond, that you said i think that they're going to continue to have to, to raise rates. and you know, they moved up their, their expectations in terms if you look at what the fed is saying, they raise their forecasts to over 5 percent by year end up half a percentage point from the timber meeting. and then as opposed to market tenants, they did, you know, them kind of easing faster, they're actually going to be using less than an 80 or so that's a bit of a change. and perhaps ship in market expectations. i think back across the world, they're saying, well, that is going to be continue to be fighting inflation and especially and, and so their u. s. interest rates are going to be higher. that's going to put upward pressure on the dollar down real pressure on, on other currencies. and that's going to, you know, help in some, in some cases such as europe in terms of competitiveness. but in other cases, an emerging market in places where you have a dollar debt denominated debt, that's going to be more problematic. it just makes their interest cost higher. so that's the challenge. yeah, let's talk about emerging markets a little bit more because says stocks in emerging markets, you know, left with relief earlier this week when we saw the us inflation figures that were, you know, better than expected. why is fed policy being so closely watched in emerging markets and what are they going to be looking out for in 2023? so 1st i was surprised by the people so positive about the inflation data because the core, the kind of excluding energy prices is still relatively unchanged. so i think the challenge is that in place has been much more persistent in the us. and as a result, via the added continue to have to raise rate in terms of emerging markets, the challenges that, that in many cases, their debt is denominated in dollars. so they don't a can't issue as much that in, in foreign currency. and so while they're, they're a weaker current, you know, a stronger dollar, a weaker current, emerging market currency, beneficial to their trade numbers, the financial aspects of it is, are harder. so what happens is that it cost them a lot more payback that, that and then that raises questions about financial stability in those emerging work countries. and so that becomes a big challenge and, and, and so that's, that's what i think they're, they're most worried about the financial stability impact of, of the, of the fed and youth. unfortunately, we've seen this game play out before where fed raising rates causes pain to emerging markets and that's ups. you know, i mean, countries have been working to try to avoid that. you know, sure of their balance sheets, but it's just, it's something that, that, you know, there's, there's, it happens frequently and, and, and in some cases there's not much you can do because as an emerging mark country, people want to borrow in dollars versus, or don't want to let you in your local currency because of that's all. okay, it's been great hearing what you have to say a gerald curren. thank you very much for joining us here on the to be business. thank you. now let's take a look at some of the other global business stories that are making the news. yes, president joe biden cord full, broad partnership with african nations today at a 3 day summit of african leaders in washington bite and also highlighted some $55000000000.00 worth of planned us funding for africa over the next 3 years, which includes private investment deals quite frankly, new or the year is pledging to invest 10000000000 euros in southeast asia. it's part of a plan to offer account weights to china's influence in the region. the news came during a meeting in brussels between leaders of the you and the association of southeast asian nations has. yeah, coming, grow can be you. energy ministers, if again failed to strike a deal on a block wide cap on gas prices. countries demanding the measure say would shield their citizens from and their economies from high energy cost. but that puts them at odds with germany in the netherlands, who worry that supplies will simply skip over europe. germany's recession is expected to be mazda then, previously predicted that according to the institute for economic research, analysts expect gemini, g, d, p to shrink by not point one percent in 2023. that's less severe than the, nor to point 3 percent previously predicted. and banking joined, hsbc says it plans to end financing the new oil and gas fields as part of its climate transition plans. it says it will continue to provide services to energy sector clients at the corporate level. if their plans are in line with the banks, climate targets or ukraine's tech workers are still very much on the job. despite the hardships of war, many companies in the sector are securing contracts as a show of solidarity from their clients. at the same time, thousands of i t workers who fled to the fighting ascending money home to help with the war aft. ah harkey shortly after the initial russian attacks in march. ever since the war came to ukraine, telecom experts are trying to repair cables and connections under difficult working conditions. whenever there's no electricity, they'll have to get by with flashlights and rely on help from colleagues abroad. noticed america no more. no. our main problem today is that with no electricity and no network, we are no longer connected to our workers, not, and many of our people are working in. hark, if bush and we don't even know if they are safe, then we're used to ah, that's why most 80 businesses have pulled the employees out of hockey entirely. one of them is natalia salem, aka. she's running her company's hockey office remotely from the polish city of krakow virtually connected to 1400 i t specialist. every morning she asked how they're holding up. we all keep doing our best we understand that we have to outperform, to make sure that the are, are successful and we are able to support our country. yeah. yeah. just wanted to show you a one of our best friends of these days work. i don't have electricity right now, but so the generator is working. the star link is working. there is some problems in here with electricity and water, for example, at my home. but there is no problem in austin. so everybody gains do or to keep on by today and yesterday also here is the light. here's the coffee. so we keep going. this is what they'll worked, looked like before the war went, 250000 ukrainians were working in the i t. the business had been booming for years, even growing by 23 percent this year, the year the war started, hospitals were among those benefiting we in west and donate a lot in defense of andre. so we beneath harkey, we id be within it more than $1000000000.00, grieving us, and we continue to do it. oh, the fact they're still able to do this proofs. one thing ukraine's i t sector is more resilient than most people knew. sh, under reminder, the top business story that we've been following for you this our, the u. s. federal reserve has hiked interest rates for the 7th time this year, december's rise of half percent, which point is lower than the previous fall. however, the fed has indicated that more rights increases are still on the way myself from the business team here in berlin, from all to head over to our website. it's d, t o e dot com slash business. you'll also find it on the d to we and use youtube channel and on facebook as d to we've dr. business. so next time with more aside, ukraine's technology sector continues to boom with growth of 23 percent last year alone. ah, natalie, is it alma in her company or the heart of this success story? how is this even possible under conditions like these, ah, made in germany. with d, w. he fled putin's wool on this spike, a russian to zat in georgia. and around 100000 young men are seeking refuge in the neighboring country. how do they feel is foreign land and how are they received by the local population? focus on europe. in 60 minutes on d w. o ah, the breeze ah, they have body and soul houses that dang, the leaders can construct far more than just buildings. he is the son of jewish holocaust survivors. how lucky that i was able to build to do if he's in berlin. his architecture is a celebration of democracy and, and architect of emotions. daniel starts december 25th on d, w. ah, ah, ah, almost 10 months ago, russian president vladimir 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