US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced that central bank will allow inflation to go higher than 2% for a certain period in August 27, 2020. US market responded as being prepared for long-term inflation: Gold rose and fell; Bond yields fell and rose; stock futures were mostly down while major indexes were higher one day after, August 28, 2020. Since 2008, US has targeted inflation below 2%. (Vigna & Hirtenstein, 2020, August 27). Assuming that US banks will increase interest rate, US bank sector in US stock went up. S&P500’s financial sector rose 1.7%.

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