Producer Price Index (PPI). Pipeline inflation and a preview of PCE; healthcare and airfare components move Fed estimates.
What to watch: Core PPI; components that feed PCE. It arrives monthly, and the effect typically lasts days.
It sits in tier 2 — Directional: Moves the index for days or weeks. Scheduled data releases, policy decisions, global spillovers, and the prices of money and energy. This is the tier most professional attention is spent on.
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