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mahatmakanejeeves

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Fri Dec 5, 2025, 09:38 AM Friday

Inflation Report: The Fed's Next Rate Move Depends on Today's PCE Release

Inflation Report: The Fed's Next Rate Move Depends on Today's PCE Release

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Dec. 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM ET

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What to Watch

The Bureau of Economic Analysis is due to release personal consumption expenditures price index data for September on Friday [at 10:00 a.m.].

Here is what economists tracked by FactSet are expecting:

• Core YoY: 2.8% increase, lower than August's 2.9% increase

Core MoM: 0.2% increase, lower than August's 0.23% increase

Headline YoY: 2.8% increase, higher than August's 2.7% increase

Headline MoM: 0.21% increase, lower than August's 0.3% increase

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Inflation Report: The Fed's Next Rate Move Depends on Today's PCE Release (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Friday OP
Actual: SEPTEMBER: PCE: +0.3%, 12 months: 2.8% (was 2.7%) ##CORE PCE: +0.2%, 12 months: 2.8% (was 2.9%); progree Friday #1

progree

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1. Actual: SEPTEMBER: PCE: +0.3%, 12 months: 2.8% (was 2.7%) ##CORE PCE: +0.2%, 12 months: 2.8% (was 2.9%);
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 12:19 PM
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(The "was" is the August number)
LBN story: democraticunderground.com/10143577593

There we also learn from the KK! Brigade that the economists making the forecasts are also making up the official government numbers.

(Krasnov Krasnov! Brigade)

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