All three of those things, while they are moderating, are still uncomfortably high,' Horneman added.

'There's still three areas of the inflation that the Fed's looking at very closely - service inflation, wage inflation and housing inflation. But I don't think we're ready to say that they're going to be able to cut rates,' said Megan Horneman, chief investment officer at Verdence Capital Advisors. Inflation is going the way that the Federal Reserve wants it to go. On top of that, core CPI - which strips out volatile food and energy prices - rose less than expected. Month over month, the index rose 0.2% last month, also less than forecast. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected a 3.1% increase. The consumer price index rose 3% on a year-over-year in June.

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