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Factoring the escalating trade war into our forecasts

We are now incorporating a further escalation in the trade war with China into our global forecasts. We think that will knock a few tenths off annual US GDP growth this year and next. Core PCE inflation will be stronger than we thought, but will remain below 2%. We still expect the Fed to lower rates by a cumulative 75bp, starting later this year.

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