{"id":205721,"date":"2025-10-17T04:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205721\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T04:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:17:08","slug":"record-highs-for-asx-200-as-trade-wars-and-rate-cuts-shape-markets-ahead-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205721\/","title":{"rendered":"Record highs for ASX 200 as trade wars and rate cuts shape markets | Ahead of the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US: CPI<\/p>\n<p>Date:\u00a0Friday 24 October at 8.30pm SGT<\/p>\n<p>For August, headline inflation in the US increased by 0.4%, in line with expectations. This saw the annual rate of headline inflation rise to 2.9%, below the forecast of 3%.<\/p>\n<p>The annual core CPI, which excludes volatile items like food and energy, rose by 0.3% month-on-month (MoM), which kept the annual core inflation rate steady at 3.1%, unchanged from July, and in line with market expectations.<\/p>\n<p>For September the expectation is for the annual headline inflation rate to rise to 3.1% YoY, which would be its highest reading since May 2024, and for the core measure to remain at 3.1% YoY.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of this, the US interest rate market is fully priced for a 25 bp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ig.com\/sg\/glossary-trading-terms\/federal-reserve-definition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Reserve (Fed)<\/a> cut in October and fully priced for another 25 bp cut in December, as the Fed prioritises supporting a cooling labour market amid persistent inflation concerns.<\/p>\n<p>US Core inflation ratechart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US: CPI Date:\u00a0Friday 24 October at 8.30pm SGT For August, headline inflation in the US increased by 0.4%,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[84,467,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-205721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-markets","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}