The continued rise in inflation in August, which saw both headline and core CPI inflation hit two-year highs, is another reason to suspect that the Fed will shy away from a further round of full-blown quantitative easing for the time being. We do think the Fed to act next week, although trying to flatten the yield curve by extending the average duration of its asset holdings is probably all we can expect.
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