Granted the Federal Reserve watches the Personal Consumption Expenditures Index to measure inflation, but the big jump in the July Consumer Price Index should remove the last doubts (if any remain) about a September interest rate increase from the Fed. The headline CPI gained 0.2% in July. That pushed the headline CPI rate to 2.9% […]


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