Major Number Coming: What The U.S. Consumer Price Index Numbers May Mean

 | Jul 13, 2021 12:24AM ET

An hour before the opening bell today, comes the Consumer Price Index reports. These days, I consider this vastly more important than what used to be the big monthly report, which was unemployment.

Inflation has been the big topic this year, and if we get another set of strong numbers (and that’s not “strong” in a positive sense), people could start to think that we’re starting to have a serious “non-transitory” problem on our hands.

CPI m/m and Core CPI m/m