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On today's podcast:

(1) Federal Reserve officials are poised to keep interest rates steady for a sixth consecutive meeting and signal no plans for cuts in the near future after higher-than-expected inflation.

(2) Japan likely conducted its first currency intervention since 2022 to prop up the yen on Monday, according to a Bloomberg analysis of central bank accounts.

(3) Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has warned the UK's financial watchdog over its plans to name firms it's investigating at an early stage, a rare political intervention against Britain's top finance regulator. 

(4) New York City police officers surged onto Columbia University's campus late Tuesday, breaking up an escalating protest and arresting pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had barricaded themselves in a building. 

(5) Rishi Sunak urged Conservative Party faithful in a pre-election speech to take part in "the greatest comeback in political history," a tacit admission of the long odds the prime minister faces in local votes across England this week.