{"id":695601,"date":"2026-06-10T12:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/695601\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T12:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:44:20","slug":"breaking-critical-us-inflation-data-released-heres-bitcoins-btc-initial-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/695601\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING! Critical US Inflation Data Released! Here\u2019s Bitcoin\u2019s (BTC) Initial Reaction!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins have experienced sharp declines in recent days. This decline is attributed to increased tensions related to the US-Iran conflict, rising energy costs associated with the conflict, and increasing inflation concerns.<\/p>\n

Analysts are concerned that inflation, which the Fed has long been trying to bring down to its 2 percent target, will continue to face upward pressure due to increases in energy prices.<\/p>\n

In the face of these concerns, US inflation is also expected to reach its highest level in the last three years. Inflation, which last exceeded 4% in May 2023, is expected to be announced at 4.2% today.<\/p>\n

At this point, while there is talk that the Fed might even raise interest rates in the face of increasing inflation risk, the US May inflation data, which the Fed closely monitors when making its interest rate decisions, has been released.<\/p>\n

Here are the US inflation figures that have been released:<\/p>\n

Consumer Price Index Annual: Announced 4.2% \u2013 Expected 4.2% \u2013 Previous 3.8%<\/p>\n

Consumer Price Index Monthly: Announced 0.5% \u2013 Expectation 0.5% \u2013 Previous 0.6%<\/p>\n

Core Consumer Price Index Annual: Announced 2.9% \u2013 Expected 2.9% \u2013 Previous 2.8%<\/p>\n

Core Consumer Price Index Monthly: Announced 0.2% \u2013 Expectation 0.3% \u2013 Previous 0.4%<\/p>\n

The consumer price index is a key variable used to measure consumer purchasing trends and changes in US inflation.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin\u2019s Initial Reaction After the CPI Data!<\/p>\n

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*This is not investment advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins have experienced sharp declines in recent days. This decline is attributed to increased tensions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-695601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695601","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=695601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}