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Treasury yields declined following softer-than-expected U.S. consumer price index gains and ahead of a shortened week featuring the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge.
The nerves are evident from spikes in the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, known as Wall Street’s fear gauge because it measures the price of options that investors tend to buy when expecting stock swings.
He added that the unemployment rate is more likely to rise than fall this year and that core inflation, using the Fed’s preferred gauge, will drop to 2.1% by year-end.
U.S. gross domestic product data, PCE inflation figures and minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting are awaited as investors continue to gauge when the next interest-rate cut is likely.
The BOJ left its policy target at 0.75% last month to gauge how the economy is adjusting to interest rates reaching their highest level in 30 years.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
