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== Meeting Results ==
* Fed interest rate unchanged in the target range of  5%-5.25% as was expected by the market.
<blockquote>“Holding the target range steady at this meeting allows the Committee to assess additional information and its implications for monetary policy,” the post-meeting statement said</blockquote>
* However, majority of the members see two more 25 basis points rate hike before the end of the year.
* FOMC members also raised their funds rate forecasts for 2024 to 4.6% from 4.3% initially.
* Additionally, they raised their funds rate forecasts for 2025 to 3.4% from 3.1% initially.
* The members now anticipates a 1% growth in GDP in 2023 from 0.4% estimate in March.
* They expects unemployment rate to be 4.1% by the end of the year versus 4.5% forecast in March.
* The members raised their forecasts for core personal consumption expenditure to 3.9% from 3.6% and lowered their forecasts for the headline number to 3.2% from 3.3%.
* The outlook for subsequent years in GDP, unemployment and inflation were little changed.
=== Magaly's Assessment ===
=== Projections ===
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Variable'''
|'''2023'''
|'''2024'''
|'''2025'''
|'''Longer Run'''<ref>https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcprojtabl20230614.pdf</ref>
|-
|Change in real GDP
|1
|1.1
|1.8
|1.8
|-
|Unemployment rate
|4.1
|4.5
|4.5
|4
|-
|PCE inflation
|3.2
|2.5
|2.1
|2
|-
|Core PCE inflation
|3.9
|2.6
|2.2
|
|-
|Federal funds rate
|5.6
|4.6
|3.4
|2.5
|}
=== Notes: ===
== Market Expectations ==
== Market Expectations ==