{"id":670420,"date":"2026-05-28T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670420\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:33:13","slug":"april-pce-report-inflation-index-up-3-8-as-price-pressures-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670420\/","title":{"rendered":"April PCE Report: Inflation Index Up 3.8% as Price Pressures Build"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"mdc-story-body__paragraph__mdc mdc-story-body__paragraph--large__mdc mdc-story-body__block__mdc\">The April <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bea.gov\/news\/2026\/personal-income-and-outlays-April-2026\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"mdc-link__mdc mdc-link--body__mdc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index<\/a> posted a slightly softer-than-expected increase, up 3.8% from year-ago levels, as inflation pressure grew from March\u2019s readings. Economists forecast that the index would rise 3.9%.<\/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 3.3% from one year ago, in line with expectations.<\/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 0.4% from month-ago levels. Excluding food and energy, the index increased 0.24%.<\/p>\n<p> April PCE Inflation Report HighlightsThe PCE Price Index rose 0.40% in April, below the FactSet consensus forecast for a 0.53% increase and following an increase of 0.66% in March.Core PCE rose 0.24% in April, below forecasts for a 0.30% increase and following an increase of 0.30% in March.The PCE Price Index rose 3.8% year over year in April, below forecasts for a 3.9% increase and following an increase of 3.5% in March.Core PCE rose 3.3% year over year in April, in line with forecasts and following an increase of 3.2% in March. <\/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 April Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index posted a slightly softer-than-expected increase, up 3.8% from year-ago levels, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-670420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}