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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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% ...
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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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 ...
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Inflation rate picked up in January, CPI report shows. What it means.
indicating that the Federal Reserve's push to drive inflation down to a 2% annual rate has stalled out, at least temporarily. By the numbers The Consumer Price Index was forecast to rise 2.9% ...