The offset is the 6-month CPI core annualized, now at the lowest in 4 years and under the 2% target.

SPX tends to go down on the tariff announcements, though the moves are somewhat short-lived in many cases. There were all ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell discussed the central bank’s decision to hold the benchmark federal-funds rate at its ...

Analysis of CPI inflation data shows mixed results for December 2024, impacting Fed rate decisions and stock market performance in 2025. Read our full outlook on Seeking Alpha.

US Core CPI printed cool at .2% versus .3%. The CPI and PPI prints imply that PCE Core with come in at a cool .2% when it is ...

JAPANESE TOKYO CPI (THU): Japanese Tokyo Core CPI is seen ticking higher to 2.5% in January from 2.4% in December 2024. The Tokyo metrics are seen as a leading indicator for the nationwide release ...

The Federal Reserve's inflation target is 2.0%. That target is tied to the PCE Price Index, which has different component weightings than the CPI does and captures the substitution effect that the CPI ...

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday as policymakers weigh the direction of inflation and the potential ...

Use the older series with a base of 100 in 1967 to compare bread ... A “core” PCE, without food and energy, is part of the release. The PCE index differs from the CPI in ways that are small ...

“But, if today’s print were accompanied by another soft CPI print next month plus a weakening in payrolls, then a March rate cut may even be back on the table ... categories that feed through to the ...

Either way, whether its CPI, Core CPI, PCE or Core PCE ... A glance at the Fed’s M2 chart shows what we would expect based on our lived experience over the past four years.

More detailed forecasts on PCE will be updated following the CPI release on Wednesday. Nationwide senior economist Ben Ayers argued that Tuesday's softer-than-expected PPI should temper the ...