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WASHINGTON AP stanley cup 鈥?Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the central bank is unlikely to raise its key interest rate in response to signs of stubborn inflation a stanley cup nd underscored his view that price increases would soon start to cool again.Yet Powell, during a panel discussion in Amsterdam, said his confidence that inflation will ease is not as high as it was because price increases have been persistently hot in the first three months of this year. Powell stressed that the Fed preferred approach was to keep its benchmark rate at its current two-decade peak rather than increase it. I dont think that its likely, based on the data that we have, that the next move that we make would be a rate hike, Powell said. I think its more likely that well be at a place where we hold the policy rate where it is. Financial markets and economists have been hoping for signs that one or two Fed rate cuts might be coming this year, given that inflation is down sharply from its high in 2022. But with price pressures still elevated, Powell and other Fed officials have signaled that no rate cut is likely anytime soon.Powell spok stanley cup e hours after a report on U.S. producer prices showed that wholesale inflation picked up in April. On Wednesday, the government will issue the latest monthly report on consumer inflation, which is expected to show that price growth cooled a bit last month.READ MORE: U.S. consumer sentiment drops to 6-month low on inflation, unemployment fea Mdnb Trump, Biden prepare to debate at a time of mounting crises

WASHINGTON AP 鈥?July has been so hot thus far that scientists calculate that this month will be the hottest globally on record and likely the warmest human civilization has seen, even though there are several days left to sweat through.The World Meteorological Organization and the European Unions Copernicus Climate Change Service on Thursday proclaimed Julys heat is beyond record-smashing. They said Earths temperature has been temporarily passing over a key warming threshold: the internationally accepted goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit .Temperatures were 1.5 degrees warmer than pre-industrial times for a record 16 days this month, but the Paris climate accord aims to keep the 20- or 30-year global temperature average to 1.5 degrees. A few days of temporarily beating that threshold have happened before, but never in July.July has been so off-the-charts hot with heat waves blisteri stanley cup ng three continents 鈥?North America, Europe and Asia 鈥?that researchers said a record was inevitable. The U.S. Southwest all-month heat wave is showing no signs of stopping as the heat wave at the end of the week pushed into most of the Midwe stanley cup st and East with more than 128 million Americans under some kind of heat advisory Thursday. Unless an ice age were to stanley cup appear all of sudden out of nothing, it is basically virtually certain we will break the record for the warmest July on record and the warmest month on record, Copernicus Director Carlo Buont