Fed’s Daly: US July CPI is a “good data point”

Matías Salord FXStreet

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary C. Daly said on Thursday that today’s Consumer Price Index report was “good news” for families and businesses in an interview with Yahoo! Finance. She mentioned that they are committed to getting core inflation down.

“We're going to be watching supercore carefully, that's a big component of spending and it hasn't made much progress so far, we need to see it come back to pre-pandemic levels,” argued Daly.

Regarding the next FOMC meeting, Daly mentioned that there is a lot more information to assess before. “It’s premature to project” if what is needed is more rate hikes or to hold them steady for a longer period. “We are a long way from a conversation about rate cuts".

“It’s still hard to find workers,” said Daly. According to the the economy is not yet in balance.

Market reaction:

The US Dollar Index is falling on Thursday but is off lows. The DXY bottomed after the US CPI report at 101.79 and then rebounded to 102.25.

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Matías Salord

FXStreet

Matías started in financial markets in 2008, after graduating in Economics. He was trained in chart analysis and then became an educator. He also studied Journalism. He started writing analyses for specialized websites before joining FXStreet.

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