BLS will omit 12-month CPI, Core CPI figures from October report

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has announced it will omit the 12-month headline CPI and Core CPI figures from its October inflation report, a data gap stemming from the disruption to federal data collection. Because the year-over-year rate is the most widely watched inflation measure, its absence removes a key input that markets use to gauge the trajectory of price pressures and, by extension, the likely path of Federal Reserve policy. The transmission mechanism runs through rate expectations: with the headline annual reading unavailable, traders must lean more heavily on monthly changes and alternative private-sector gauges to infer inflation momentum, which raises uncertainty around the policy-rate outlook and can lift volatility in the dollar as rate differentials are repriced. The U.S. dollar is most directly exposed, particularly against currencies whose central banks have clearer policy signals, while CPI-linked instruments such as Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities and inflation swaps may see wider bid-ask spreads and shifting breakeven pricing. Traders should watch the next scheduled Fed communication and any alternative inflation series the BLS publishes in the interi

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