More than 3.6 million workers have armored their wages in the face of the escalation of the CPI

More than 3.6 million workers have secured wage protection clauses, often referred to as wage "armoring," in response to rising consumer price inflation, according to the Expansion report. The transmission mechanism runs through inflation expectations and labor costs: indexation and inflation-linked wage agreements can make price pressures more persistent by feeding nominal income growth back into services and goods pricing, which complicates the disinflation path central banks are targeting. Fixed-income markets, particularly breakeven inflation rates and inflation-linked government bonds, are most sensitive to such signals, as are rate-sensitive sectors that depend on the timing of monetary easing. The next catalyst to watch is the upcoming CPI release, where core services inflation will show whether wage indexation is feeding through into underlying price momentum.

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