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What Jerome Powell is weighing leading up to the Fed's next meeting.

The consensus expectation from the survey that the Wall Street Journal runs,

we survey economists, mostly work at Wall Street banks,

they're expecting to see that inflation basically held steady in January compared with December.

Plus, tensions rise in Gaza after Netanyahu demands that Hamas free Israeli hostages by Saturday.

And doctors want more people to know that drinking alcohol can increase their cancer risk.

It's Tuesday, February 11th.

I'm Alex Osala for the Wall Street Journal.

This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.

We're starting off this evening with international news. In Gaza, the ceasefire is seeming more fragile.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is demanding that Hamas released three Israeli hostages at the originally scheduled time by noon Saturday, or face a

return to war. Hamas set off a rupture in the talks yesterday by saying it would postpone the

release of the hostages to protest delays in deliveries of humanitarian goods. In Israel, demonstrators in support of continuing the deal blocked a main thoroughfare from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.

People are dying slowly, but surely, they are desperate to get out of the underworld that Hamas built.

And we have to save them while we can.

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