{"id":8241,"date":"2018-05-02T03:02:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T07:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=2c9de5aa2883a894965c04bef0e848db"},"modified":"2018-05-02T03:02:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T07:02:07","slug":"fed-set-to-leave-rates-alone-amid-signs-of-rising-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/02\/fed-set-to-leave-rates-alone-amid-signs-of-rising-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed set to leave rates alone amid signs of rising inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The Federal Reserve achieved an inflation milestone this week, but that isn&#8217;t likely to alter expectations for what the Fed will announce when its latest policy meeting ends Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>After six years of mostly missing its annual 2 per cent target for inflation, the Fed learned Monday that its preferred gauge of consumer inflation had reached a year-over-year pace of 2 per cent. And in coming months, inflation is widely expected to stay around that level.<\/p>\n<p>The debate the Fed is now likely to have is whether it should accept a period in which inflation rises above 2 per cent without accelerating its pace of rate increases. For now, a rate increase is considered unlikely. In a statement it will issue Wednesday afternoon, the Fed is expected to leave its benchmark rate unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &mdash; The Federal Reserve achieved an inflation milestone this week, but that isn&rsquo;t likely to alter expectations for what the Fed will announce when its latest policy meeting ends Wednesday. After six years of mostly missing its annual 2 per cent target for inflation, the Fed learned Monday that its preferred gauge of consumer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}