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Stock Market Today: Dow up 150 points after October CPI report; Bitcoin reaches ,000 for the first time
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Stock Market Today: Dow up 150 points after October CPI report; Bitcoin reaches $93,000 for the first time

US inflation looks “still strong” based on fundamental data from the consumer price index, but another rate cut awaits the Federal Reserve in December before new fiscal policies take shape, possibly in 2025, according to BlackRock’s Rick Rieder.

Rieder, chief investment officer of global fixed income and head of BlackRock’s global allocation investment team, said in emailed comments Wednesday that core CPI, which excludes food and energy prices, rose 0.28% in October and 3.33% year-over-year.

“We find ourselves at a point where the multiplicity of consequences for inflation related to recent solid economic growth, newly elected political officials and the resulting higher tariffs and higher levels of growth etc. are leading to an inflation. There is a big focus on Wednesday’s CPI report he said.

Rieder noted that the reading suggests that underlying data from the personal consumption expenditures price index “will see a monthly gain that exhibits significantly lower inflation than we’ve been used to in previous years,” he said, “but inflation will likely have a trajectory in the same direction.” “It eliminated much of the potential improvement in inflation for much of the goods economy and parts of the services sector.”

Rieder reviewed the CPI report and found that “housing, transportation services, and used cars and trucks…are categories that are still elevated, although they have shown tangible improvement over the past few years.” But he said the report was “generally not outside the realm of what the Fed would roughly consider on its way to its inflation target.”