January PCE inflation report: headline & core PCE vs expectations, plus income and spending trends—key Fed signal for rates.

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer spending increased slightly more than expected in January, which together with ...

The Commerce Department on Friday released the January 2026 PCE inflation report, which showed the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge remained stubbornly high for consumers.

PCE inflation in January was 2.8% year over year. The numbers predate the Iran conflict.

The stock market rose on Friday as investors prepared for a busy morning of economic data and assessed the PCE and GDP ...

The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday its Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCE) rose largely in line with ...

Markets and Federal Reserve officials are parsing a muddled inflation report this morning. Monthly PCE was largely in line with consensus. The headline figure grew by 0.3% in January, while the less ...

The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge just hit a nearly two-year high. Core PCE climbed to 3.1% in January, erasing much of the progress made since the index last peaked in March 2024. November and ...

Goldman Sachs just sent a sobering warning to the Federal Reserve. After analyzing a "noisy" January CPI report, the firm’s economists, led by Jan Hatzius, officially reset their forecast for the ...

A big driving force was lower energy costs in January, which won’t last, and at least one other factor may have been redefined without mention.

Friday’s personal consumption expenditure data drop will give policymakers a broader picture of what’s happening with inflation.

The big news is the core PCE inflation number coming in not quite as bad as ⁠feared. We've had relatively good news on the CPI inflation front in recent months, but core PCE ...