In an interview with the media on Saturday, Minneapolis Fed President Neil Kashkari said that this matter (rate cuts) is really not dependent on short-term plans between Congress and the new administration - it's really about productivity and economic growth. If that growth can be sustained and our economy becomes more structurally efficient, then that tells me that we may not cut rates as much.
Commenting on the CPI report, Neil Birrell, chief investment officer at Premier Miton Investors, said the likelihood of the Fed cutting rates by 50 basis points next week "took a significant hit from that number, but it was simply not enough to stop the Fed from cutting rates". David Kelly, chief global market strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, said July's core CPI reading was slightly above market expectations, but today's reading was more of "noise than news", adding that inflation had f...