Fed chairman Guillaume Powell spoke in an interview with the American TV program 60 Minutes

- With the strength of the economy, we feel that we can approach the issue of the timing of an interest rate cut carefully.

- We want more confidence before taking a very important step to start lowering interest rates.

- We have made good progress regarding inflation.

- We can act sooner if we see a weak labor market or really convincingly low inflation.

- Further persistent high inflation may mean a late move to lower the interest rate.

- The March meeting is probably too early to get the confidence to start interest rate cuts.

- There is no easy, simple and clear way

- Inflation is expected to continue moving downward in the first six months of this year due to fundamental influences.

- Inflation readings are also expected to decline for 12 months over the course of this year.

- When I was asked about the forecasts of policy makers in December for the level of interest rate policy at the end of the year at 4.6%, I said nothing that makes me think that people will significantly change the forecasts.

- Almost all nineteen policymakers consider it appropriate to cut interest rates this year.

- We do not take politics into our decision-making.

- It would have been better to tighten the policy earlier.

- He does not see a high probability of recession.

- He does not see commercial real estate loans as the cause of the crisis as we have seen in the past.

- China's problems are unlikely to affect the US economy،