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Ahead of US Fed meeting, Trump says America should have world’s lowest interest rate

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post · North America

No country should have lower interest ⁠rates than the United States, President Donald Trump said on Sunday, days before the Federal Reserve’s next policy meeting. Speaking to reporters at the Irish Open golf tournament at the Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg, County Clare, Trump said he did not know whether Fed policymakers will raise interest rates at ‌their meeting this week. But he argued that the US “should be paying the lowest interest rate in the world” no matter what the...

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