Inflation showed signs of cooling last month, a welcoming sign for the Federal Reserve as it tries to cool consumer prices with higher interest rates.
SlateStone Wealth chief market strategist Kenny Polcari and former Dallas Fed adviser Danielle DiMartino Booth discuss if inflation is stabilizing faster than anticipated on 'Cavuto: Coast to Coast.'showed signs of slowing in December, but it still remained abnormally high, according to new data released Friday.
The Personal Consumption Expenditures index showed that consumer prices rose 0.1% from the previous month and rose 5% on an annual basis, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Core prices, which strip out the more volatile measurements of food and energy, climbed 0.3% from the previous month and 4.4% year-over-year. Those figures are both in line with forecasts by Refinitiv economists.
While the Fed is targeting the PCE headline figure as it tries to wrestle consumer prices back to 2%,previously told reporters that core data is actually a better indicator of inflation. Both the core and headline numbers point to inflation that is running well above the Fed's preferred 2% target, a troubling sign as the central bank is already hiking interest rates at the fastest pace in decades.
"We've continually expected to make faster progress on inflation than we have," Powell told reporters last month. "That's why the peak rate for this year goes up between this meeting and the September meeting. You see the fact that we've made less progress than expected on inflation."
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