TREE NEWS update: The US Consumer Price Index report for October will not include the year-on-year percentage change, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said, because of the 2025 government shutdown. The annual figure is the measure the public typically uses to gauge inflation; it stood at 3.7% in September. The October data are due Tuesday.
US October CPI to Lack Year-on-Year Figure Due to 2025 Government Shutdown
AI take
The missing annual figure matters less as a data gap than as a signal: the headline inflation number most people and markets anchor to will simply not exist for October, leaving the September 3.7% reading as the last clean reference point. That complicates how the report gets read on Tuesday, since month-on-month detail will have to carry weight it usually doesn't. The open question is whether the disruption stays a one-month artifact of the shutdown or signals a longer stretch of degraded official statistics that markets and policy discussions must work around.
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