hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we begin in the us where the central bank is expected to increase interest rates by another 75 basis points today which would be the fourth consecutive increase of this size. many are hoping for signs the federal reserve may soften its approach in the months ahead with markets anticipating a 0.5% rate rise in december. so what s different within the us economy that would lead the fed to change its current course? here s michelle fleury. since march the federal chair hiked the rate by three percentage points, in so doing caused more expensive loans on everything, from houses to cars and credit cards, so far they have done so without any damaging slowdown in job have done so without any damaging slowdown injob or growth wealth creation. the trouble is there is no sign of a living rolling off with consumer prices, inflation still high at over 8% and still the fed has focused on. and until it sees inflation coming
has started to unwind it s so called qe programme. quantities easing was a term we all heard again and again following the global financial crisis in 2008 when central banks bought government debt in order to push down interest rates and avoid a credit crunch. with rising inflation for the bank of england now it s all about quantitative tightening. to make sense of this and what it means for our money we rejoined by sunaina sinha haldea global head of private capital at raymond james. how will this affect artists and our money. talk us through what the central bank is doing in the uk? what the central bank is doing in the uk? ~ ., g, in the uk? bank of england has become the in the uk? bank of england has become the first in the uk? bank of england has become the first central- in the uk? bank of england has become the first central bank. become the first central bank to actively sell down the bonds that had bought during the crisis periods, bought them during brexit, the pandem