{"id":45210,"date":"2025-09-26T19:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/45210\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T19:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:34:07","slug":"august-pce-report-pce-inflation-index-up-2-7-in-line-with-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/45210\/","title":{"rendered":"August PCE Report: PCE Inflation Index Up 2.7%, in Line with Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"mdc-story-body__paragraph__mdc mdc-story-body__paragraph--large__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\">The August <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bea.gov\/news\/2025\/personal-income-and-outlays-August-2025\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"mdc-link__mdc mdc-link--body__mdc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index<\/a> increased in line with expectations, up 2.7% from year-ago levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mdc-story-body__paragraph__mdc mdc-story-body__paragraph--large__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\">When volatile food and energy costs are factored out, the Federal Reserve\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/markets\/whats-difference-between-cpi-pce\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"mdc-link__mdc mdc-link--body__mdc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preferred measure of inflation<\/a> increased 2.9% from one year ago, below expectations. Economists forecast that the core PCE inflation index would rise 3.0%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mdc-story-body__paragraph__mdc mdc-story-body__paragraph--large__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\">The PCE Price Index increased 0.26% from month-ago levels. Excluding food and energy, the index increased 0.23%.<\/p>\n<p> August PCE Inflation Report HighlightsThe PCE Price Index rose 0.26% in August, below the FactSet consensus forecast for a 0.3% increase and following an increase of 0.16% in July.Core PCE rose 0.23% in August, above forecasts for a 0.21% increase and following an increase of 0.24% in July.The PCE Price Index rose 2.7% year over year in August, in line with forecasts and following an increase of 2.6% in July.Core PCE rose 2.9% year over year in August, below forecasts for a 3.0% increase and following an increase of the same amount in July.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"story__disclosure__mdc\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThis article was generated with the help of automation and reviewed by Morningstar editors.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/policies-and-standards\/how-does-morningstarcom-use-automation\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"mdc-link__mdc mdc-link--body__mdc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morningstar\u2019s use of automation<\/a>.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"story__disclosure__mdc\">The author or authors do not own shares in any securities mentioned in this article.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tFind out about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/editorial-policy\" tabindex=\"0\" itemprop=\"publishingPrinciples\" class=\"mdc-link__mdc mdc-link--body__mdc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morningstar\u2019s editorial policies<\/a>.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The August Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index increased in line with expectations, up 2.7% from year-ago levels. When&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-45210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}