FED’S PAULSON SAYS THE AI AND ENERGY EFFECT ON INFLATION IS DIFFICULT TO MEASURE, AND THAT THE PRECISE TRAJECTORY OF RATE POLICY HINGES ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS

Federal Reserve official Paulson stated that the inflationary impact of artificial intelligence investment and energy price movements is difficult to quantify, and that the precise path of interest rate policy will depend on how economic conditions evolve. The remark signals that policymakers are not yet willing to pre-commit to a rate trajectory, which keeps the policy-rate expectations embedded in the front end of the Treasury curve sensitive to incoming data. The transmission channel runs through inflation repricing: AI-driven capital spending could lift aggregate demand and productivity in ways that are hard to separate from energy-cost pass-through, so breakeven inflation and real-yield expectations may remain volatile. Short-duration Treasuries and rate-sensitive segments such as bank funding costs and rate-dependent equities are most exposed to shifts in this uncertainty, while energy-linked inflation hedges and TIPS will react to any change in the assessed energy contribution. Traders should watch the next Personal Consumption Expenditures price index release, which the Fed follows closely, alongside weekly energy inventory and price data for signs of whether energy-driven

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