Core US inflation may be “stronger than previously assumed”

13 August 2019

 

The annual rate of US consumer inflation halved from nearly 3% in the period from July 2018 to February 2019 and then subsequently fluctuated in a range from 1.5% to 2.0%. However, “headline” inflation is known to be volatile and so reference is often made to “core” inflation figures. This measure has mostly ranged between 1.7% and 2.3% in recent years and it has not been below 2.0% since early...

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