Jerome Powell now has exactly what he needed to justify staying on the sidelines. On Thursday, the Commerce Department reported that both headline and core PCE inflation figures for June came in ...

Core PCE, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, was also flat from a month ago and grew 2.6% on an annual basis. LSEG economists predicted a slight monthly increase of 0.1%, while their ...

March data puts regional Fed bank’s inflation measure at 3%, above 2.3% headline personal-consumption-expenditures index By Steve Goldstein Follow Published: May 6, 2025 at 5:50 a.m. ET ...

The Commerce Department on Friday reported that the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) index rose 0.1% on a monthly basis and 2.1% on an annual basis — the slowest growth rate since ...

The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, the core personal consumption expenditure price index, comes out on Friday. The month-over-month increase for core and headline PCE price index are expected ...

Inflation held steady in July as the headline figure for the Consumer Price Index was at 2.7% year-over-year, unchanged from ...

When it comes to measuring inflation in the U.S., there are a variety of data points and indicators that economists and ...

Economists expected the PCE price index to cool sharply to 2.2% annually in March, likely due to falling energy costs as oil prices slumped on lower demand expectations.

In the 12 months through June, the PCE index rose by 2.6%. That was up from 2.4% in May, and slightly faster than the 2.5% estimated by forecasters polled by The Wall Street Journal. On a core ...

The core PCE in the June report is forecast to rise 0.2% to 0.3% when it's released on July 29. Such an increase would be a bit too high to persuade most senior Fed officials to cut rates.

The PCE Index, month over month, was also as expected at +0.1%, up from the 0.0% reported the previous month. Year over year, +2.1% PCE is down 10 basis points (bps) from estimates.

The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCE), the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation metric over the past 25 years, came in lower than expected recently, encouraging news for Wall ...