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Fed Projects One Rate Cut This Year

Fed Warns Iran War Could Push Inflation Higher, Still Signals 2026 Rate Cut

Federal Reserve officials said the war involving Iran is likely to push inflation higher this year while having little effect on economic growth, though they still expect to cut interest rates once in...

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Fed to still cut rates this year, even as high oil prices spark an uptick in inflation: CNBC Fed survey

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Fed leaves interest rates unchanged, expects inflation to climb

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Fed projects one rate cut this year, as Powell vows to stay on until DOJ investigation is finished

Federal Reserve officials expect the Iran war will worsen inflation this year while having little impact on economic growth, but they still expect to cut their key rate once in 2026.

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US holds interest rates as Iran war triggers inflation fears

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Federal Reserve Maintains Rates and Watches Risks From Iran War

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Federal Reserve could signal no interest rate cuts this year in wake of Iran war

Many economists expect the Fed will forecast that inflation will remain as high as 3% even by late 2026.

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Fed Chair Powell: I’ll stay at the Fed until Jeanine Pirro’s probe is ‘well and truly over’

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How many rate cuts? Iran war upends Federal Reserve's next steps

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Stocks slump on worries about higher oil prices, inflation and interest rates

U.S. stocks slumped after a report said inflation was primed to worsen even before the war with Iran sent oil prices spiking

Fed projects one rate cut this year as Powell vows to stay on until DOJ investigation is finished

The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday and Chair Jerome Powell highlighted the increasingly uncertain outlook for the U.S. economy and inflation in the wake of the Iran war,

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Bank of Canada holds rates, says it would hike them to prevent persistent inflation

By Promit Mukherjee and David Ljunggren OTTAWA, March 18 (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada on Wednesday kept its key policy rate on hold as widely expected but Governor Tiff Macklem said the central bank was ready to raise rates to prevent higher energy prices becoming persistent inflation.

Inflation crisis turns five and still reshapes the economy

The worst U.S. inflation outbreak in a generation turns five years old this month, a defining economic shock that is still driving policy debates.

PolitiFact

Fact-checking Donald Trump on inflation rate at State of the Union

President Donald Trump inflated his administration’s success in reducing inflation at his Feb. 24 State of the Union address, falsely claiming he inherited "record levels" from

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Here's the inflation breakdown for February 2026 — in one chart

The consumer price index was rose 2.4% in February 2026, above policymakers' target, economists said. War in Iran complicates the picture.

Finance & Commerce

Higher costs for rent, food drove inflation up in December

WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer prices increased in December, lifted by higher costs for rents and food as some of the distortions related to the government shutdown that had artificially lowered inflation in November unwound, cementing expectations the ...

Townhall

Less Than 1 Percent Inflation? Yes.

These numbers come from the real-time price aggregator Truflation, which monitors millions of prices daily. That is orders of magnitude higher than the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which observes only a few thousand prices three times per month.

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Map shows states where home insurance has risen faster than inflation

In only five states home insurance rate hikes did not outpace inflation between 2020 and 2025.