More investors are putting greater focus on services inflation and labor-market data as they try to grasp a more complex inflation picture
Typically, rising demand pushes up prices, motivating producers to increase supply. WSJ’s Dion Rabouin explains why the age-old economics equation isn’t working right now. Illustration: David FangPrices of services are rising quickly. Prices of goods are falling. Energy is all over the map.
Policy makers and market watchers already strip out volatile components of price indexes to understand “core” inflation. These days, many are on the hunt for an even narrower measure: a supercore.on Thursday, most investors will still look first at the monthly change in the so-called core consumer-price index, which excludes food and energy categories to provide a better sense of inflation’s longer-term trajectory.
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