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Bitcoin confronts a two-week Fed trap as inflation rewrite threatens to upend rate cuts
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Bitcoin’s next Federal Reserve test is split across two dates.
Key facts
- CPI is a BLS index released Sept. 11, while PCE is a separate Commerce Department measure tied to the Fed’s 2% longer-run inflation objective
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics schedule puts the August employment report on Sept. 4, producer price inflation on Sept. 10 and consumer price inflation on Sept. 11
- Over 12 months, headline PCE inflation was 3.7% and core inflation was 3.3%
- Bitcoin is -1.58% over the past 24 hours and currently sits at rank # 1 by market cap
Summary
01 The Fed will decide rates on Sept. 16 before official August PCE and its annual revision arrive Sept. 30. 02 Waller said one method change could trim 12-month PCE inflation by a few tenths, but the total revision may differ. 03 Bitcoin faces two tests: the Fed decision first, then a revised inflation baseline that could reshape later rate bets. The Federal Open Market Committee will decide policy on Sept. 16 after seeing August payrolls, producer prices and consumer prices. Governor Christopher Waller has already put a number on one part of that pending change.