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Podcast: Squawk Box Europe Express
Episode: SQUAWK BOX, FRIDAY 26TH AUGUST, 2022
Description: The Dow finishes in the green with U.S. markets eagerly anticipating Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech later today. Fed officials speaking to CNBC at the Wyoming symposium have reiterated the need to keep raising interest rates to bring down U.S. inflation. President Biden signs an executive order to boost chip production. At a mid-term elections rally in Maryland he called Trump philosophy ‘semi-fascist’. In Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, back-up systems have sparked into action following shelling at Europe’s largest nuclear plant, which disconnected it from the country’s grid. British energy regulator Ofgem prepares to lift th...