The most recent inflation data suggests that the Federal Reserve's strategy of raising interest rates is beginning to slowly reduce inflation pressures, which is a positive for equity markets. However, this slightly lower inflation data (7.7% vs. 8.1% annual rate) is still far from their goal of returning to 2%. Although markets celebrate this progress, there are still more rate hikes ahead to reach the Federal Reserve's goal, which will mean more market volatility over the coming weeks, and perhaps months.

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