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Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Wednesday, February 15th.

And this is your FT News Briefing.

Humanitarian aid is finally trickling into Syria after last week's earthquake,

our correspondent visited the region and found utter devastation.

I've never seen a place that I hope has been completely abandoned in such a dramatic way.

And in Turkey, the earthquake disaster has turned a spotlight on decades of

lax and building regulation. But first, the latest US inflation numbers.

I'm Mark Philippineau and here's the news you need to start your day.

U.S. inflation continued to cool. The latest data out yesterday showed that consumer prices

grew 6.4% in January, year on year. That's a bit slower than the previous month,

but not what the Federal Reserve and many others would have liked to see.

Inflation is quite sticky. It's not falling quite as rapidly as I think the Fed would want,

or even the White House would want. That's the FT's James Politi. He says, as for those

interest rate cuts, that some starry-eyed investors had been talking about.

Right, I think that that seems far-fetched at the moment based on what we've seen from

the Inflation report, but also what we saw from the Jobs report earlier this month,

which showed big gains in employment over the course of January, which showed a strong labor

market. It shows that the U.S. is likely to avoid a recession, at least in the near-term,

isn't really even close to a recession. But on the other hand, sort of the whole point of

policy at the moment was to try to cool the economy, get inflation down, and that process

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