Fed expected to keep rates on hold despite cool inflation reading

It is possible that the cold reading of inflation from the month in which president Trump’s tariff was not shaken by the full explosion of the Federal Reserve Reserve of keeping the interest rates fixed, as politicians still see a danger that the fees pay prices up with the progress of the year.

“We will have to wait until next month to obtain a real feeling of how the definitions on the economy affects,” said Ellen Zintner, the chief economic strategy of Morgan Stanley. “The question is not whether the definitions will have an effect, it is the issue of the effect of this effect.”

The Personal Consumption Expenditure Index (PCE) – which expels the costs of food and energy and is closely monitored by the Central Bank – by 2.5 % year on year in April. The federal reserve goal is to reduce this number to 2 %.

The new reading was in line with expectations and cooler than the annual change by 2.7 % recorded in March. The basic prices also increased by 0.1 % in April of the previous month, walking with expectations of 0.1 % and the monthly increase seen in March.

Jeffrey Roche, chief economist at LPL Financial, says on Friday’s “good printing as much as you get”, as prices are expected to interact in the coming months.

“The main inflation in April slowed down to the slightest printing of inflation, we will likely see for the rest of the year,” Roth added.

There is an internal debate within the central bank on whether any enlargement of the customs tariff will prove that it is one or more over.

The White House has argued that the Federal Reserve should look at any increase in prices as a single time, as Trump has repeatedly calls for a decrease in prices, but many federal reserve officials have made clear that they are not sure of the way things will go.

President Trump, President of the Federal Reserve, told Jerome Powell on Thursday during a meeting inviting the president that he is making a mistake by not lowering prices, echoing his calls throughout the year to reduce prices.

The Federal Reserve said in a statement that Powell “did not discuss his expectations for monetary policy, with the exception of the affirmation that the path of policy will depend entirely on the economic information received and what does this mean for expectations.”

Dallas Laurie Logan’s head of the Federal Reserve Speaker sent a strong veiled message on Thursday night about the stable prices in the face of President Trump’s calls for low rates.

Logan said that the rates of “good place” now, and it may take “some time to see if the risk balance is turning in one direction or another.”

She said that the effects of rate changes take time to play, and to balance properly, the Federal Reserve needs to think about where the economy is heading, and not only in its place now.