With investors looking toward Friday’s November nonfarm-payrolls report, market participants see the potential that it could be overshadowed by an entirely different set of data: next Wednesday’s consumer-price index for the same month.

U.S. central bankers on Tuesday said they continue to believe inflation is heading down to their 2% target and signaled support for further interest rate cuts ahead, but none pushed strongly for or against doing so when they next meet to set rates in two weeks.

The US appears on track to hit its long-term target of two percent inflation despite a recent uptick, two Federal Reserve officials said Monday, with one indicating support for another