Tuesday, July 10, 2007

UPDATE 2-Bernanke: Anchored expectations mute price swings

(Reuters) - CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 10 - Swings in volatile
energy and food prices will have minimal impact on inflation as
long as expectations of future price gains are held steady,
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.




"If inflation expectations are well anchored, changes in
energy prices should have relatively little
influence on 'core' inflation, that is, inflation excluding the
prices of food and energy," Bernanke told the National Bureau
of Economic Research.


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