Inflation concerns to be offset by weaker growth

The Fed is set to announce at next week’s FOMC meeting that it will shortly begin to taper its monthly asset purchases. But of more interest will be the extent to which the new statement reflects the apparent growing concerns among officials about higher inflation, and whether Chair Jerome Powell gives any hints that a sustained overshoot could bring forward interest rate hikes

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