An inflation report Wednesday should be a big deal for the Fed. Here's what to expect

Cnbc · Aug 11, 2026 · 758 words · By Jeff Cox

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What to know about An inflation report Wednesday should be a big deal for the Fed. Here's what to expect

An important inflation report Wednesday could give the Federal Reserve a little breathing room in its battle against inflation.

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What happened

An important inflation report Wednesday could give the Federal Reserve a little breathing room in its battle against inflation.

Why it matters

On an annual basis, they are expected to show 3.4% and 2.5% respectively, both down 0.1 percentage point from June.

Common ground

While that will still keep annual inflation rates well above the Fed's 2% goal, two straight muted monthly readings could help buy Federal Open Market Committee policymakers a little time before making a move on interest rates.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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What concrete event or decision sits underneath the headline: An inflation report Wednesday should be a big deal for the Fed. Here's what to expect?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that a report last Friday showed nonfarm payrolls fell by 23,000 in July even as the unemployment rate dropped to 4.1%?
What happens next if the deal stalls, and who has the power to restart talks?

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Claim 1: “a report last Friday showed nonfarm payrolls fell by 23,000 in July even as the unemployment rate dropped to 4.1%.”

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No evidence was found regarding nonfarm payrolls falling by 23,000 or the unemployment rate dropping to 4.1% in July.

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Claim 2: “Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack — one of the three dissenters at the June meeting”

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Claim 3: “Traders now see the September meeting as presenting only a 50-50 chance for a hike, and see a better likelihood in October or December, according to the CME's FedWatch gauge.”

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While the evidence confirms the existence of the CME FedWatch tool and its purpose, it does not provide the specific probability percentages (50-50) for the September, October, or December meetings.

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web search NEUTRAL — Use CME FedWatch to track the probabilities of changes to the Fed rate, as implied by 30-Day Fed Funds futures prices. Interested in learning more about our Interest Rates products, such as SOFR, Fed …
https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch…

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web search NEUTRAL — The probability of a rate hike by June 2027 is rapidly rising. While no forecasting tool can concretely predict the future, the CME Group's FedWatch Tool suggests there's a growing likelihood of the F…
https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/06/11/uh-oh-probability-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Our Fed rate monitor calculator is based on CME Group 30-Day Fed Fund futures prices, which tend to signal the markets’ expectations regarding the possibility of changes to US interest rates based on …
https://www.investing.com/central-banks/fed-rate-monitor

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Claim 4: “The consumer price index, due at 8:30 a.m. ET from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is expected to show only a modest increase for July — 0.1% on the all-items headline number and 0.2% for the all-important core reading”

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The provided evidence contains general information about the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the CPI, but no specific data regarding the July forecast of 0.1% headline and 0.2% core inflation.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973–1974_stock_market_crash

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shadowstats.com is a website that analyzes and offers alternatives to government economic statistics for the United States. Shadowstats primarily focuses on inflation, but also keeps track of the mone…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowstats.com

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Claim 5: “The central bank skips an August meeting as the Kansas City Fed hosts its annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.”

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Web search results confirm that the Kansas City Fed hosts an annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, and the context of the articles discusses the Fed's communication around this event.

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web search NEUTRAL — Kansas City Fed's annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole."Otherwise, we have work to do." It was a notable shift for a central bank leader who in the same remarks still asserted that "a quieter Fed…
https://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/analysis-warshs-quieter-fed-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Learn more about the Kansas City Fed's annual economic policy symposium.The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the positions of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas …
https://www.kansascityfed.org/newsroom/2026-news-releases/ka…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has held its annual economic symposium in a lodge in Grand Teton National Park since 1982.Traditionally, the Fed chair uses the Jackson Hole speech to deliver a…
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/jackson-hole-federal-reserv…

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Claim 6: “Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh, who has faced stiff policy challenges since taking the post in May.”

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Multiple independent sources confirm that Kevin Warsh became the Chairman of the Federal Reserve in May 2026. This is supported by a cross-reference (CNBC) and multiple web search results.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kevin Maxwell Warsh (born April 13, 1970) is an American financier and attorney who has served as the 17th chair of the Federal Reserve and a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 202…
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Claim 7: “the headline rate down 0.4% on a monthly basis and core flat [in June]”

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The evidence discusses PCE inflation and Eurozone inflation for June/July, but does not provide the specific monthly headline CPI rate of -0.4% and flat core for June.

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web search NEUTRAL — The inflation rate across the 18-country eurozone languished at a low of 0.5 percent in June, official figures showed Monday, adding urgency to the European Central Bank's recently announced measures …
https://www.foxnews.com/world/eurozone-inflation-rate-remain…

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web search NEUTRAL — Core inflation also accelerated from a 0.1% monthly increase in June to 0.2% in July. Core PCE Refused to Fall Below 3.3%. Core PCE is the part of Wednesday’s report that deserves the most attention. …
https://nchstats.com/pce-inflation-remain-same-in-july-2026/

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web search NEUTRAL — The central bank kept rates unchanged in its July meeting, but three officials voted for a hike. The minutes released last week showed that members of the Federal Open Market Committee said they would…
https://www.ibtimes.com/feds-preferred-inflation-gauge-rose-…

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Claim 8: “On an annual basis, they are expected to show 3.4% and 2.5% respectively, both down 0.1 percentage point from June.”

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The evidence provides definitions of 'annual' and general information about the CPI, but does not contain the specific expected annual rates of 3.4% and 2.5%.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a family of various consumer price indices published monthly by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The most commonly used indices are t…
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Claim 9: “Bank of America, for example, is still calling for three rate increases in coming months.”

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No evidence was found regarding Bank of America's forecast for three rate increases.

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Claim 10: “At its July meeting, the FOMC split in a 9-3 vote to hold its key borrowing rate unchanged at 3.5%-3.75%.”

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Three independent web sources confirm that the FOMC voted 9-3 in July to hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 3.5%-3.75%.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is a committee within the Federal Reserve System (colloquially "the Fed") that is charged under United States law with overseeing the nation's open market oper…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The federal funds rate is the interest rate at which depository institutions (banks and credit unions) lend reserve balances to other depository institutions overnight on an uncollateralized basis. Re…
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Claim 11: “The three dissenting voters all favored a quarter percentage point increase”

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Independent sources (ZeroHedge and other web results) specifically state that three members of the FOMC voted to raise rates during the July meeting where the rate was held steady.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of th…
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