A confluence of factors continues to catalyze choppy, rangebound markets as investors strive to determine whether the Fed will be able to bring inflation under control prior to the U.S. economy falling into a recession. The convergence of the two lines inside the yellow oval on the far right of the 60+ year graph below speaks to this dilemma facing fundamental investors. On the one hand, the Fed’s main inflation metric surprised last month (white line, right axis) to the upside, while last week’s ISM Manufacturing Index (red line, left axis) screamed recession.
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