On April 21st, local time, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell said that in order to curb inflation, the Federal Reserve would discuss raising interest rates by 5 basis points at its policy meeting in May, and hinted that there may be similar rate hikes in the future.

"I think 5 basis points will be discussed at the meeting in May," Powell said at an IMF event in Washington. Powell also said that in the minutes of the March meeting, a number of Fed officials indicated that it was appropriate to raise interest rates by 5 basis points "once or several times", and that it was reasonable to put the intensity of large-scale interest rate hikes in the front-end loading period, thus strengthening the market's expectation of raising interest rates by 5 basis points in June.

This activity is Powell's last public appearance before the interest rate meeting in May. The Fed usually raises interest rates by 25 basis points at a time, and raising interest rates by 5 basis points will be the first time since 2. Investors have expected the Fed to raise interest rates by 5 basis points in May and June, and Powell's signal is in line with market expectations.

Previously, Brad, the most hawkish Fed President in St. Louis, had begun to explore the possibility of raising interest rates by 75 basis points at a time, while Daley, the long-time dovish Fed President in San Francisco, also indicated that it was possible to raise interest rates by 5 basis points "several times".

Powell also talked about the problem that the labor market is in short supply. "(The labor market) is too hot and unsustainable." The task of the Federal Reserve is to bring the demand and supply of labor back to a balanced level. Economists worry that labor shortage may trigger a spiral rise in wages and prices, thus fueling inflation.

At present, the Federal Reserve is trying to achieve a "soft landing" of the economy through monetary policy, that is, to slow down the economic growth to a level that can lower inflation, and at the same time, it will not cause a large-scale rise in unemployment and trigger an economic recession. "I don't think anyone at the Fed will say that [soft landing] is an easy thing. The challenge is very big. " Powell said.

boosted by the strong financial reports released by many companies, the three major U.S. stocks collectively opened higher, with the Nasdaq gaining nearly 2% in intraday trading. However, after midday, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell delivered a "hawkish" speech, saying that a 5 basis point interest rate hike would be discussed at the interest rate meeting in May, while San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Daley even said that the Fed might raise interest rates by 5 basis points in the next two interest rate meetings. At the same time, two senior Fed officials made "hawkish" speeches, which led to the three major indexes of new york stock market changing from rising to falling. By the close, the Dow was down 1.5%, the S&P 5 was down 1.48%, and the Nasdaq was down 2.7%, a five-week low. On that day, technology stocks led the decline, with Facebook's parent companies Meta and NVIDIA both falling more than 6%, while Netflix, which plunged more than 35% on Wednesday, saw its decline narrow to 3.5% on Thursday.

The three major U.S. stocks closed down on Thursday. At the close, the Dow fell by 368.3 points, or 1.5%, to 34,792.76 points. The Nasdaq fell 278.41 points, or 2.7%, to 13,174.65 points; The S&P 5 index fell 65.79 points, or 1.48%, to 4,393.66 points.

Large-scale technology stocks generally fell, with NVIDIA falling more than 6%, Amazon and Qualcomm falling more than 3% and Google falling more than 2%. Precious metals, energy and oil and gas sectors generally fell, with US energy falling more than 6% and gold mining falling more than 5%. Aviation stocks rose against the market, with United Continental Airlines rising more than 9%, American Airlines and JetBlue rising more than 3%. Popular Chinese stocks generally fell, with iQiyi falling by nearly 15%, Didi dropping by over 9%, JD.COM, Weilai and Bili dropping by over 5%, Xpeng Motors and LI dropping by over 4% and Alibaba dropping by over 3%.

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