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According to updated economic forecasts from the Fed's Summary of Economic Projections (SEP), the central bank sees core inflation hitting 2.5% next year, higher than its previous projection of 2. ...
Lifting their median inflation forecast for next year by 0.3 percentage point to 2.5% but only nudging the GDP growth up a tenth to 2.1%, Fed policymakers also raised their policy rate forecasts ...
The S&P 500 sunk 2.9%. Among the key signals from the Fed include a higher terminal interest rate projection of 3% rather than 2.875%, and an increased inflation forecast of 2.5% next year. Both ...
An increase in the annual rate of inflation was fully expected because of comparisons to a year-ago period when inflation cooled rapidly as well as some hurricane- and holiday-driven price hikes ...
Then, on Thursday, the "core" Producer Price Index (PPI) revealed prices increased by 3.1% in October, up from 2.8% the month prior and above economist expectations for a 3% increase.
Meanwhile, inflation expectations in the next five to 10 years dropped to a 2.7% rate, “falling below the narrow 2.9-3.1% range for only the second time in the last 26 months.”
It forecast only two rate reductions in 2025, in a nod to the economy's continued resilience and still-high inflation. In September, Fed officials had forecast four quarter-point rate cuts next year.
As a consequence, economists at Goldman Sachs have forecast that core inflation would amount to 2.7% by the end of 2025. Without tariffs, they estimate it would drop to 2.4%.