News about inflation

Tomorrow's News Today... BREAKING: THE FED HOLDS INTEREST RATES AT 5.25-5.50%, CITING FIRMER PRICE PRESSURES AND LOWER CONFIDENCE THAT INFLATION WILL MOVE DOWN TO THEIR 2% TARGET THIS YEAR.

Not encouraging for the Fed: New York Fed 5-year inflation expectations ticked up to 3% from 2.8%. UMich longer-term inflation expectations have also climbed a bit lately. Probably not enough to make officials freak out, but definitely something that they'll be keeping an eye…

The Fed's catch-22: They don’t want to cut without more convincing evidence their policy stance is as restrictive as they think it is But some are uneasy it will be too late to avoid an employment downturn by the time they see the evidence No paywall: www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/fed-meeting-interest-rate-preview-9eabab49?st=1h4dmxe93thf722&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

JPM and Citi scrapped their calls for a July rate cut after last Friday's jobs report. Most sell-side economists and other professional Fed watchers now anticipate one or two rate cuts this year in either September or December pic.twitter.com/x9tUD06Pmi