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The new US-Iran peace deal may take some of the pressure off for a Fed rate hike, but the case for rate cuts is still premature. Fed funds futures are pricing in a path that continues to anticipate keeping policy steady for the next several FOMC meetings: cmegroup.com/markets/interes…
Running low... still: “Soon enough, we’ll run out of shock absorbers,” said Antoine Halff, a co-founder of the research firm Kayrros and a former chief oil analyst at the International Energy Agency: nytimes.com/2026/06/12/busin…
As expected, US consumer inflation continued to accelerate, rising 4.2% y-o-y at the headline level. The news adds to pressure on the Fed to tighten policy. Core CPI, a more reliable measure of the trend, is much lower, but here too the 1yr trend ticked higher to a 2.9% pace.
Middle-East conflict is heating up, again, as Israel renewed its military assault in Lebanon shorturl.at/s8sFJ but the oil market isn't worried, based on the US crude benchmark, which is trading below $90 a barrel: