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I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. First, the Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation remained elevated.

It went up four-tenths of a percent in February. The report also shows prices went up 2.8 percent in a year.

Higher inflation than economists see is healthy.

Diane Swank is chief economist at KPMG. The better gauge of momentum is really the three-month

annualized increase and six-month annualized increase because this is momentum that the Fed is

watching closely and those are accelerating. We also saw the largest increase in

core goods prices that's stripping out, you know, food and energy that we've seen since the onset

of the pandemic inflation in early 2022. So this is all very hard for the Federal Reserve,

which is weighing whether or not its next move will be up instead of down on rates.

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