{"id":447849,"date":"2026-02-01T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447849\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:51:09","slug":"alternative-inflation-data-shows-sharp-cooling-in-us-cpi-amid-fed-uncertainty-tradingview-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447849\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative inflation data shows sharp cooling in US CPI amid Fed uncertainty \u2014 TradingView News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alternative inflation data is pointing to a sharp cooling in US prices, reinforcing the case for interest rate cuts and carrying broader implications for risk assets, including cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n

After the Federal Reserve paused rate cuts last week and signaled no clear path to near-term cuts, real-time inflation data suggest policymakers may be out of sync with rapidly improving price conditions.<\/p>\n

Truflation, an alternative inflation tracker that aggregates millions of daily price points from tens of independent data providers, showed broad-based cooling across its US inflation indexes. <\/p>\n

As of Sunday, Truflation\u2019s US Consumer Price Index (CPI) stood at 0.86% year over year, down from 1.24% the previous day.<\/p>\n

The platform\u2019s reading of core personal consumption expenditures (PCE), the Fed\u2019s preferred inflation gauge, came in at 1.38%, well below the central bank\u2019s 2% target. \"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cAll our indexes are calculated daily as a year-over-year percentage rate, using millions of data points from tens of data providers,\u201d Truflation said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The figures stand in sharp contrast to official government data, which showed annual CPI at 2.7% in December and core PCE at 2.8% in November.<\/p>\n

As Cointelegraph recently reported, the Fed\u2019s interest rate trajectory has significant implications for the US dollar, global liquidity conditions and financial markets. Rate cuts are widely viewed as a headwind for the dollar, a dynamic that has historically supported risk assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) and the broader crypto market.<\/p>\n

Related: Crypto\u2019s 2026 investment playbook: Bitcoin, stablecoin infrastructure, tokenized assets<\/p>\n

US dollar hangs in the balance<\/p>\n

Recent market signals suggest the US dollar may be approaching a turning point, with technical and structural factors increasingly shaping its trajectory beyond Fed policy alone.<\/p>\n

The US Dollar Index, which tracks the dollar\u2019s performance against a basket of six major currencies, recently posted a weekly close below a long-term support level that had held for more than a decade, according to data from Barchart. The move could signal further downside risk if the breakdown is sustained. \"\"<\/p>\n

Macro investors have long argued that a weaker dollar is not only tolerable but desirable under current conditions. Raoul Pal, founder of Real Vision, has previously noted that \u201ceveryone needs and wants a weaker dollar to service their dollar debts,\u201d particularly in a global system heavily reliant on dollar-denominated liabilities.<\/p>\n

Pal has also argued that a softer dollar aligns with the Trump administration\u2019s broader growth objectives, including those tied to fiscal and industrial policy, as it tends to ease financial conditions and support global liquidity.<\/p>\n

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