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The decline in oil prices continues to weigh on headline Consumer Price Index ((CPI)) inflation, which fell 0.3 percentage point to 1.6% year-over-year in January. However, core CPI (which excludes energy and food prices) held steady at 2.2% year over year, with support from normalization in r...

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) was unchanged in January on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today . Over the last 12 months, "headline" inflation increased just 1.6%, the lowest number since June 2017. January's number conti...

I created this chart of my forecast for inflation for 2019 back in January. The red bars are my forecast numbers. Today, we got January's Consumer Price Data and they came in at 1.52% year over year. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Al...

Some things are worth repeating so that their potential effects may be fully appreciated. San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly recently said that the U.S. central bankers are currently debating whether it should confine its controversial tool of bond buying to purely emergency situations or i...

The Federal Reserve has long been clear on the sequence of events as it innovated the playbook during the Great Financial Crisis. There would be a considerable period between when the Fed would finish its credit easing operations that involved purchasing Treasuries and mortgage-backed securi...

"A US inflation breakout looks unlikely," advises Oxford Economics' chief US economist, Gregory Daco. As forecasts go for the projections of pricing pressure, that ranks as one of the safer bets these days, or so it appears based on recent data and the outlook for today's January report on c...

It is critical to keep in mind that monetary policy changes impact the real economy at a lag of several quarters. So the tightening cycle that ran from December 2015 to December 2018 will continue to dampen global demand over the next several quarters, even if central banks tighten no further ...

On Friday, the CFTC posted its COT data for the first week in 2019. For crude oil, capitulation . For US Treasury bond futures, capitulation. In the latter financial market, unsurprisingly, the net market position utterly collapsed during December. From a relatively high (meaning market overa...

By Francis A. Scotland U.S. monetary policy announcements can be cryptic at times. Not so the last Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The January 30 press conference was the final act to some dramatic theatre that does play out from time to time at the Federal Reserve (Fed). The earlie...

Bill Dudley, who is now a senior research scholar at Princeton University's Center for Economic Policy Studies and previously served as president of the New York Fed and was vice-chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, recently penned an interesting piece from Bloomberg stating: ...