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Fed in a flutter as US inflation softens
Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell, tried his best to talk up the prospect of a higher-for-longer interest rate policy story, but the market didn’t believe him yesterday and will be even less inclined to do so after today’s personal income and spending report. The 0.2% month-on-month core Personal Consumer Expenditure deflator outcome (consensus 0.3%) is another inflation surprise with the year-on-year rate slowing to 5% from 5.2%. This is significant as it is the Fed’s favoured measure of inflation and with pipeline price pressures, such as import prices and PPI, also continuing to soften after we got the ... (full story)