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Deep Freeze Hits Entire U.S.

A rare winter storm churned across the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday, breaking snowfall records more than a century old in a southern region where flurries are unusual, as much of the United States remained in a dangerous deep freeze. A snowstorm warning was in effect for 31 million people - from southern Texas east through Georgia and north to the Carolinas and into Virginia - until Wednesday morning, the National Weather Service said.
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U.S. Inflation

Is Inflation Cooling?

U.S. consumer prices increased by the most in nine months in December amid higher costs for energy goods, pointing to still-elevated inflation that aligns with the Federal Reserve's projections for fewer interest rate cuts this year. There were, however, some hopeful signs in the fight against inflation, with the report from the Labor Department on Wednesday showing a measure of underlying price pressures subsiding after barely budging for four straight months. That raised prospects of tame monthly readings in the inflation gauges watched by the U.S. central bank for its 2% target and prompted financial markets to bet on a rate cut in June.
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U.S. Federal Reserve

Fed Concerned Over Trump Plans

The reality of President-elect Donald Trump's election victory on a platform of aggressive tariffs and deportation of some immigrants landed hard at the Federal Reserve's meeting last month, with U.S. central bank officials raising new inflation concerns and staff suggesting the incoming administration's plans may slow economic growth and raise unemployment. Amid an otherwise sanguine outlook of continually slowing inflation, participants at the Dec. 17-18 meeting "noted that recent higher-than-expected readings on inflation, and the effects of potential changes in trade and immigration policy, suggested that the process could take longer than previously anticipated," according to minutes of that session released on Wednesday.
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U.S. Federal Reserve

Fed Cuts, Powell Hawkish

The U.S. central bank cut interest rates on Wednesday, as expected, but Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said more reductions in borrowing costs now hinge on further progress in lowering stubbornly high inflation, remarks that showed policymakers are starting to reckon with the prospects for sweeping economic changes under a Trump administration. Powell's explicit - and repeated - references to the need for caution from here on jolted Wall Street, sending stocks sharply lower, bond yields higher and leading investors to dial back estimates of how far borrowing costs are likely to fall over the coming year.
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U.S. Inflation

Inflation In Line – Good or Bad News?

U.S. consumer prices increased by the most in seven months in November, but that is unlikely to discourage the Federal Reserve from delivering a third consecutive interest rate cut next week against the backdrop of a cooling labor market and rental costs. Most of the rise in inflation reported by the Labor Department on Wednesday came from higher food prices as well as more expensive motel and hotel rooms. Rents, which have been the major driver of inflation, increased at the slowest pace since July 2021, and that typically bodes well for the inflation outlook.
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U.S. Labor Market

Payrolls Disappoint to Downside

U.S. private payrolls increased at a moderate pace in November, while annual wages for workers staying in their jobs edged up for the first time in 25 months. The ADP National Employment Report on Wednesday did not change expectations for a sharp acceleration in nonfarm payrolls in the government's more comprehensive and closely watched employment report for November, which is scheduled to be published on Friday. Job growth was severely curtailed in October by Hurricanes Helene and Milton as well as strikes by some aerospace factory workers.
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U.S. Inflation

Inflation Gauge Continues to Rise

Inflation edged higher in October as the Federal Reserve is looking for clues on how much it should lower interest rates, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. The personal consumption expenditures price index, a broad measure that the Fed prefers as its inflation gauge, increased 0.2% on the month and showed a 12-month inflation rate of 2.3%. Both were in line with the Dow Jones consensus forecast, though the annual rate was higher than the 2.1% level in September.
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U.S. Weather

Bomb Cyclone Slams Northwest

A powerful storm clobbered Washington state on Wednesday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people while disrupting road travel and causing at least one death and two injuries. The storm with tropical-storm-force winds of 50 mph (80 kph) and gusts around 70 mph felled trees and power lines overnight. The storm, called a "bomb cyclone" when the storm rapidly intensifies, is going to stall over northern California in the next few days. On Friday, rainfall could reach up to 20 inches (508 mm) in parts of southwest Oregon and northern California. A bomb cyclone rapidly intensifies in 24 hours or less when a cold air mass from the polar region collides with warm tropical air in a process that meteorologists call bombogenesis.
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U.S. Inflation

Inflation’s Path Forward?

U.S. consumer prices increased as expected in October, and progress toward bringing inflation down has slowed since mid-year, which could result in fewer interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve next year. The consumer price index rose 0.2% for the fourth straight month, the Labor Department said on Wednesday. In the 12 months through October, the CPI advanced 2.6% after climbing 2.4% in September. The headline numbers were predicted by economists polled by Reuters. The uptick in annual inflation also reflects last year's low reading dropping out of the calculation. CPI excluding food and energy increased 0.3% in October, rising by the same margin for the third consecutive month. In the 12 months through October, the so-called core CPI gained 3.3%. That followed a similar advance in September.
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U.S. Interest Rates

U.S. Federal Reserve Reluctantly Cuts Rates

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Thursday as its policymakers began taking stock of what could become a more complex economic landscape when President-elect Donald Trump takes office next year. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the results of Tuesday's presidential election, which paved the way for a U.S. chief executive who has pledged widespread deportation of immigrants, broad-based tariffs, and tax cuts, would have no "near-term" impact on U.S. monetary policy.
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