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Savings Rate Slides As Fed's Favorite Inflation Gauge Slowed In February (Ahead Of War) The Fed's favorite inflation indicator - Core PCE (a measure of price changes in consumer goods and services that excludes volatile food and energy costs) - rose 0.4% MoM in February (pre-war), in line with expectations, with YoY rising 3.0% (as expected - lowest since Dec), down from January's +3.1%... Source: Bloomberg The YoY Core decline is coming off January's highest level since March 2024, with Services cost inflation slowing notably... The headline PCE also rose 0.4% MoM (as...

Watch Live: Kevin Warsh Faces Democratic Fire In Contentious Senate Confirmation Hearing For Fed Chair President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, is scheduled to appear before the Senate Banking Committee today at 10:00 a.m. ET for his confirmation hearing - his first public test in the high-stakes process to become the next chair of the central bank. The hearing, set to take place in the Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 538 in a hybrid open session, comes less than a month before current Chair Jerome Powell’s term...

Rabo On Regime-Change At The Fed: What Warsh Can (And Should) Do First The honeymoon period for Warsh is over. The FOMC could have given him the professional courtesy of allowing him to settle in, but in recent weeks several Committee participants have staked out their position. They want to drop the FOMC’s easing bias and instead take a more neutral stance. This means it will be more difficult for Warsh to convince the Committee of cutting rates anytime soon. Against that internal pressure, WSJ's Fed whisperer, Nick Timaraos reports that Warsh has tapped two...