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Hot CPI inflation number takes June interest rate cut off the table

Good but disappointing news on CPI inflation for January

Headline, all-items Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation fell again in January, but not by as much as economists had projected before this morning’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In January prices rose at 3.1% year-over-year. That’s a slower increase...
Hot CPI inflation number takes June interest rate cut off the table

Don’t forget tomorrow’s CPI inflation report

Tomorrow, May 10, brings the key CPI inflation report for April. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg are projecting that headline inflation will rise at a 5% year-over-year rate. That would match the 5% headline rate for the Consumer Price Index in March. The headline...
Hot CPI inflation number takes June interest rate cut off the table

This week it’s CPI inflation time again

Another big macroeconomic report to hang over stocks, depressing volatility. After all, who wants to get out ahead of Thursday’s Consumer Price Index inflation report for October? Economists surveyed by Bloomberg project that CPI headline inflation will slip to...