Stronger than i think everyone expected. And so what youre seeing is this is what people believe, as of now, will be appropriate to achieve what were looking to achieve, which is progress toward our inflation goal. Central bankers now project higher growth and lower unemployment for next year. Central bankers now project higher growth and lower unemployment for next year. If theyre right, the us will have avoided a long feared recession. The decision gives policy makers more time to assess whether theyve done enough over the last 18 months to tame inflation. Remember, the fed began lifting Interest Rates from near zero back in march 2022. Central banks here in asia keep a close tab on the fed because us Interest Rates strongly influence Exchange Rates against the dollar. Fred newman covers economies in asia extensively for the banking giant, hsbc, and he says that the impact of us Monetary Policy on the rest of the world is not a primary concern for the fed. Well, its a little bit our
the el paso colorado county sheriff s office say ballistics tests provide a conclusive match between the gun that was used to kill tom clem minutes on tuesday in colorado and the gun that was being fired by evan ebel during that shooting that resulted in his death in texas two days later. now the investigation, it is clear, moves to an inquiry into whether anyone else was involved in this murder. el paso county sheriffs say they have no evidence yet that anyone else was, but they are clearly looking into that possibility. i know there was a shuffle in the prison system about a month ago. 211 gang members, the same gang that ebel was a member of, were moved to a different prison. do we know, was that shakeup somehow related to clements murder? reporter: well, there s been a lot of speculation that it might be, but we spoke with the department of corrections. they say those types of shakeups happen routinely, moving gang members from one prison to another. we also spoke today with t
0 keystone and they will fight it. outside voorenvironmental groupe also saying they have 50,000 people lined up, who have signed up and said they are willing to be arrested, protesting against keystone. also today, the secretary of state, john kerry, is on a surprise trip to afghanistan. he landed just hours after the u.s. handed over its prison, its main prison in that country, to the afghan government. that may not sound like the biggest deal in the world, but that prison was one of the most important sticking points to how and when we would finally end our war there and extricate ourselves from that country, so that is a really important political development. also in the face of continuing, withering, bipartisan criticism of the performance of the veteran s administration, particularly toward iraq and afghanistan veterans, we learned today that the chief of staff of that agency is leaving. announcing today that he will retire. we ve also got new details ahead this hour in the mu