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A US Bureau of Labor Statistics index measuring changes in prices consumers pay for a basket of goods and services, the primary US inflation gauge.
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Kevin Hassett, the White House's top economist, says three-month core inflation near 2% leaves the Fed little room to raise rates. Wednesday's August PCE release will test his window on the inflation gauge the Fed itself prefers.
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The Fed took its target range to 3.75-4.00% on September 16 and raised its median PCE forecast to 3.7% in the same document, so the real cost of holding a metal that pays no coupon moved by about a sixth of a point.
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Tiff Macklem says elevated energy prices are adding persistence to headline inflation, with CPI at 3% and new tariffs on course to push fourth-quarter growth below 1%. His commitment runs in both directions.
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The Fed's September 16 move to 3.75-4% took the two-year note to nearly 4.75%, which is roughly the top of the range plus the 80 basis points futures have priced. Buyers get carry now. Whether they keep it comes down to August's 0.4% monthly CPI.
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Cryptobriefing puts the 30-year Treasury at 5.33% intraday and calls it a windfall for life insurers. The peer income figure it cites implies a book already earning about 4.0%, so the pickup is nearer 1.3 points.
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The Fed's Q2 accounts show household money-market holdings up 12.8% over the year to $5.1 trillion at yields below 3.75% after fees, with August CPI at 3.4% and the small-CD balances savers control flat for seven months.
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CME FedWatch puts 88.5% on a quarter-point hike to 3.75% after CPI printed 3.4%. The 11.5% left over is a hold, and UBS's Paul Donovan says that outcome would put a risk premium into bond pricing. Trump wants the hold.
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A 3.4% headline CPI print has pushed odds on a September 15-16 Fed hike into the high 80s. Copper is off a record above $14,500 a tonne, and the two reasons given for that record, tight supply and tariff risk, are unchanged.
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The BEA publishes its annual national accounts revision on September 30, fourteen days after the FOMC votes, and Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan both model it taking 0.1 to 0.2 points off core inflation back to 2021.
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CME FedWatch put the odds of an increase at the Sept. 16 meeting near 90% after August's core reading, and Capital Economics expects two further quarter-point moves by March 2027. The August data predates $100 oil.
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Processed intermediate goods rose 11.5 percent over 12 months while the prices firms finally charge rose 5.4 percent. Diesel accounts for most of August's monthly move, and the measure that excludes distributor margins accounts for the rest.
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Truflation's September reading of 2.33% sits 1.07 points below the BLS print for August. The platform's own record of forecasting official releases within 0.09 points makes that gap a claim with a settlement date.
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Isabelle Mateos y Lago's revised forecast starts tightening in December 2026, and it leans on a headline CPI of 3.4% whose core component is running a full point lower at 2.5%.
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The 3.4% headline that drew three dissents for immediate hikes is carried by nine older months running near 4.4% annualized. Clearing those months out of the window takes nine more monthly prints.
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The steepest annual decline since 1963 is being credited to most favored nation deals. The contracts are not public, the models are not live, and the index measures pharmacy receipts.
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The bank's own estimate is 25%. The more useful detail is that the market's hike probability travelled from 12% to 45% on oil headlines, not on inflation prints.
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Headline CPI eased a tenth to 3.4% and core held at 2.5%. Neither number pays for a nine-percent monthly rally; the consensus that the Fed does nothing does.
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The University of Michigan's share of consumers expecting income to outpace inflation has fallen from 18% in December 2024 to 8%. Plans that assume full cost pass-through look fragile.
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July 2026 CPI printed at 3.4%, in line. BlackRock's fixed-income CIO argues the residual sits in shelter and services, where the policy rate has little grip.
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Unadjusted spending rose 0.9% in July and 5.2% year over year, with restaurants up 6.0%. The seasonally adjusted decline mostly reflects Prime Day moving from July to June.
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