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To hear Powell tell it, the story of inflation coming down is actually intact. Even as the Fed announced a third consecutive cut, equivalent to a whole percentage point, monetary policy is still ...
The annual rate of grocery price inflation is the highest since this time last year; however, it’s a far cry from 2022 when it averaged 11.4% and peaked at 13.5% — well above overall inflation ...
Right now, the unemployment rate, at 3.6%, remains historically low. The Fed believes it can slow the economy to reduce inflation without causing people to lose their jobs en masse.
Meanwhile, the energy index decreased by 1.9% in September, after falling 0.8% in August as gas prices declined a sizable 4.1% last month. On a yearly basis, the energy index was down 6.8%.
What is core inflation right now? Core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy items and are watched more closely by the Fed, increased 0.4% in line with February's rise. That kept the ...
At the end of the day, the Fed just needs to maintain confidence that the inflation monster will someday go away, and inflation’s steady slowdown over the past year has so far helped in that ...
The Fed's preferred inflation measure — the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Index that excludes the cost of food and energy, or so-called "core" PCE — rose 4.2% over the prior year in ...
Like the rest of inflation data, grocery prices are coming in hotter after slightly moderating last year.. The cost of groceries remained flat in March and is up 1.2% year over year, according to ...