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Inflation well under way toward 2 percent target: Fed's Evans

March 27, 2017 1:45 PM EDT

FILE PHOTO: Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans speaks at the Chicago Banking Symposium in Chicago, Illinois, United States, June 3, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young

MADRID (Reuters) - Long-term inflation expectations may still be running below the U.S. Federal Reserve's target of 2 percent, though in the shorter term prices are rising toward that figure, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans said on Monday.

"Inflation is well under way toward our 2 percent target," Evans told a conference in Madrid. "I'd like to see it happen a little bit sooner than many forecast. I still worry that long term inflation expectations are running below our 2 percent inflation objective."

Evans said he did not expect core inflation, which strips out volatile elements like energy prices, would reach the 2 percent target until 2019.

(Reporting by Sarah White and Jesus Aguado; Editing by Julien Toyer)



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