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Powell Sees ‘Highly Desirable’ Gains Behind Modest Fed Jobs View

Fed chair plays down higher yields, pins on brighter outlook Sees inflation advancing this year but

Powell Sees ‘Highly Desirable’ Gains Behind Modest Fed Jobs View

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That would be the fastest pace since 1983 when measured fourth quarter over the same three months a year earlier and would follow a 2.4% contraction in 2020 as a result of the pandemic.</p>\n<p>Inflation, as calculated by the personal consumption expenditures price index, is seen in the Fed’s median forecast as ending 2021 at 2.4% but slowing to 2% next year. It clocked in at 1.5% in January.</p>\n<p>Powell said prices would probably rise due to so-called base effects as very low readings from last year fall out of the calculation, along with some pressure from pent-up spending and supply-chain bottlenecks.</p>\n<p>But this shift is expected to be temporary and the long period of low inflation in the U.S. would keep price pressures in check.</p>\n<p>“Long term we think the inflation dynamics we have seen for a quarter century are still intact,” he said. 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That would be the fastest pace since 1983 when measured fourth quarter over the same three months a year earlier and would follow a 2.4% contraction in 2020 as a result of the pandemic.\nInflation, as calculated by the personal consumption expenditures price index, is seen in the Fed’s median forecast as ending 2021 at 2.4% but slowing to 2% next year. It clocked in at 1.5% in January.\nPowell said prices would probably rise due to so-called base effects as very low readings from last year fall out of the calculation, along with some pressure from pent-up spending and supply-chain bottlenecks.\nBut this shift is expected to be temporary and the long period of low inflation in the U.S. would keep price pressures in check.\n“Long term we think the inflation dynamics we have seen for a quarter century are still intact,” he said. Powell added that if this prediction provided not to be the case, the Fed has tools to tackle unwanted inflation and would use them.\nPowell appeared before the committee along with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as part of congressional oversight of the government’s response to the pandemic. 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