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Are the upside risks to core inflation mounting?

We continue to believe that core PCE inflation will return to the 2%target on a sustained basis early next year, as labour market conditions gradually ease. Up until recently we would also have argued that the risks to that view lay mostly on the downside, but there now appears to be some upside risks emerging too, leaving the balance more equally poised.

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