WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Federal Reserve said Tuesday there is a strong case for raising the benchmark interest rate at the central bank’s December policy meeting.

In an unusually direct comment for normally-reticent central bankers, Fed governor Jerome Powell told the Senate Banking Committee, “I think that the case for raising interest rates at our next meeting is coming together.”

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