Inflation

Municipal managers and analysts say the new quarter will see less volatility and more opportunity for value and upside potential.

Consumers’ inflation expectations ticked up for the three-year horizon, according to the March Survey of Consumer Expectations.

Acyclical factors may be responsible for core personal consumption expenditures price index inflation reaching the Fed’s 2% target in July.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said a rising U.S. debt burden could derail the current expansion.

Consumers’ inflation expectations held, but respondents’ optimism about income and spending slid.

Consumers’ inflation expectations grew, but respondents’ optimism about income held, according to the April Survey of Consumer Expectations, released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Monday.

Calling for gradual and patient interest rate hikes, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Rob Kaplan warned that three major challenges to the economy’s health must be addressed.

With inflation remaining stubbornly low, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick T. Harker said Wednesday he’s “penciled in” two rate hikes this year.

U.S. import prices rose 1.0% in January on a 4.7% rise in fuel prices and a 0.4% rise for import prices outside of fuels, the strongest gain for that core series since March 2012.

U.S. consumer prices rose by more than projected in January as apparel costs jumped the most in nearly three decades.