The Federal Reserve would not rest easy with the slowdown in U.S. inflation

The Fed’s preferred inflation indicators rose in December at the slowest pace in more than a year, supporting the idea of a slowdown in the pace of interest rate hikes. Such figures would be consistent with expectations that the Fed will on February 1 further slow the pace of interest rate hikes to a quarter-point increase. But inflation remains well above its 2%…

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