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It's Wednesday, January 18th.

I'm Ann Marie for Totally for the Wall Street Journal.

This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that moved the world today.

In the final month of the year, US retail sales had their biggest decline of 2022.

The Commerce Department reported that sales at stores, restaurants and online fell a seasonally adjusted 1.1 percent in December from the prior month.

Hiring and wage growth also eased in December and existing home sales have now fallen for 10 straight months as the federal reserve raises interest rates to tame inflation.

Speaking of the Fed during a Wall Street Journal live Q&A with our Chief Economics correspondent Nick Timmeros today, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said the Central Bank should keep raising interest rates until it gets above 5 percent.

Yes, we're coming closer, but we're not quite in the zone yet.

And I think you'd probably have to get over 5 percent to say with a straight face that we've got the right level of the policy rate that will continue to push inflation down during 2023.

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