BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, OCT 24, 2025 – 08:39 AM
With vol markets fully clenched, this morning’s much-anticipated CPI print (no matter how full of guesstimated data) is sure to prompt an initial flurry of trading activity but as we detailed in our preview, absent some major outlier, is likely to be mostly irrelevant with rate-cut expectations now fully pricing in 2 x 25bps cuts for the rest of the year.
As a reminder, this data was supposed to originally be revealed on Oct 15 and would have been indefinitely delayed had the White House not intervened with a demand that the BLS recall staff and figure out what the number is and report it today at 8:30amET.
Just as we suggested, the headline data was a miss (cooler than expected)…
Source
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cooler-expected-cpi-data-leaves-fed-track-rate-cuts