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US CPI Reading Takes a Temporary Back Seat to Banking Crisis
The most important event on the economic calendar ahead of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy meeting this month is no longer the latest reading on inflation. Tuesday’s consumer price index reading is being overshadowed by turmoil in the banking industry. Silicon Valley Bank on Friday became the biggest US lender to fail in more than a decade just days after Silvergate Capital Corp. announced it was shutting its bank. Then on Sunday, New York state financial regulators seized Signature Bank. The collapses led the Fed to launch a new emergency program to backstop banks. So now inflation is no longer top of mind ... (full story)