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Fed officials refrained from cutting interest rates at their most recent meeting out of concern that inflation is still running over the Fed's 2% target. The stubbornness of inflation, which hasn't ...

Inflation eased in December as core consumer prices rose at the slowest annual rate since March 2021 in the final month of the year. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released by the Bureau of ...

The Federal Reserve sets monetary policy in the United States with two main goals in mind. Its first goal is to provide for stable prices over time, which is to say the Fed has the job of managing ...