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The inflation is cooled in March, but interest rates are expected to remain high.
Cooling inflation slightly last month, but do not expect Useful interest rates To drop, too.
Prices It increased by 2.3 % On the annual basis in March, according to the latest personal consumption expenses issued on Wednesday. This decreased from the annual increase by 2.5 % in February, but slightly higher than 2.2 % increase.
PCE is the preferred federal reserve inflation scale.
The numbers appeared this morning after the release GDP in March Data, which showed the economy contract at a rate of 0.3 % in the first quarter. The contraction was largely due to companies and people “buying panic” the goods imported from President Donald Trump’s tariff Go out.
However, consumer spending slowed greatly in the first quarter, according to the GDP report. Flexible consumer spending helped stimulate the economy amid stubborn enlargement and rise in unemployment.
The latest data is unlikely to change the Federal Reserve next week on interest rate Economy health. Experts expect the Federal Reserve will retain steady rates next week, as this is done since January after it was reduced twice in last fall.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was severely pressure from the Trump administration to low rates, although Trump has retracted the threats to shoot Powell after the stock market negatively responded last week.