Latest Inflation Readings Put the Federal Reserve in a Bind
Markets will be laser focused on Federal Reserve policy and economic projections next week, looking for signs about where ...
Why the bond market isn't enamored with PPI inflation reading
The bond market has a bone to pick with the latest inflation data. Traders in bonds "so far shrugged off this morning’s cool PPI" and remain "more focused on the less-encouraging implications for the ...
The challenge of inflation: Five things to look out for
Inflation is no longer the No. 1 economic problem that it has been for the past three years, but it remains a major challenge ...
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January US CPI Report Shows Inflation at a 3.0% Annual Rate
Core CPI also rose 0.4%, below the December increase of 0.2%. Economists expected consumer prices to rise 0.3% on a monthly basis in January, and for the annual inflation rate to rise to 2.9% ...
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The Fed Should Correct an Oversight on Food Inflation
But policymakers spend an inordinate amount of time talking about measures of core prices, which exclude food and energy, and that undoubtedly influences their decisions. Since the 1970s, economists ...
Consumer retrenchment in goods spending, inflation mild
Inflation rose at only a mild pace in January and income rose more than twice the expected amount. But inflation-adjusted spending dropped half a percentage point, the biggest monthly retrenchment in ...
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To panic over inflation or not? Data this week takes Wall Street on a roller-coaster
Economic data on inflation dominated ... feed into the PCE deflator came in soft for the month. "Based on this week’s CPI and PPI reports, we estimate the core PCE price measure increased ...