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Daly says Fed rate hike likely, despite 'painful' tech-stock dive

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Daly says Fed rate hike likely, despite 'painful' tech-stock dive

Nov 6 (Reuters) - Federal ‌Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly said on ​Friday ‌she feels the US central bank ‌will likely need to raise rates further to bring too-high inflation ‌down, even as she acknowledged what she called the "painful" but orderly repricing of technology stocks as investors reassess the ⁠risks to AI-driven demand growth.

"My ‌expectation is, we're ⁠going to have to tighten policy further," ​Daly said on CNBC, though exactly when and how much is ​not yet clear. Noting "how volatile ​the ‌world seems to be in many ​ways," she added, "those volatilities are ⁠something that you have ‌to take into ​account, collect more ​information, and be deliberate but more gradual in how you get there when you don't know exactly ‌where you're going to need to head. But more is likely to ‌be ​needed and certainly we're prepared --  I'm prepared -- to do that, if that's what the economy calls for."

(Reporting by ‌Ann Saphir; Editing by Chris Reese)