CPI

CPI, the consumer price index, is the monthly US measure of what a basket of goods and services costs households, published by the BLS. It lands at 6:00 PM IST, 7:00 PM in winter, the market trades the gap to expectation, not the number, and a hot print travels through the Fed rate path to the sectors that take it worst. The August 2026 print came in at 0.3% core against 0.2% expected, and a hike followed.

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