Core inflation pressures rapidly easing

Chair Jerome Powell told Congress this week that the Fed is looking for “more good data” to strengthen its confidence that inflation will return to 2%. That is exactly what the June CPI and PPI delivered, with those releases implying that core PCE prices rose at a sub-2% annualised rate for the second month running.

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