Daily coverage · Weekly briefing Mondays · Maya Reyes
CPI, rent, gas, groceries and consumer rates. What a household pays this month versus last.
Friday's 8:30 a.m. ET release of the Q3 Employment Cost Index showed nominal pay up about 3 percent while constant dollar wages fell 0.6 percent over the year to September, the clearest real-time read yet on the household cost of living squeeze.
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September PCE ran 0.5% in a single month and 3.7% from a year ago, the fastest stretch since spring; here is what the re-acceleration costs a household each month and what to watch next.
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Gasoline stocks jumped 3.870 million barrels in the week ending October 23 while crude drew down, a surprise that is easing pump prices toward $4.269 even as distillate tightens and keeps heating and freight bills high.
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The Conference Board's October Consumer Confidence Index jumped 7.5 points to 91.7, beating the 81 that economists expected, and the board's own senior economist credits easing retail gasoline, now $4.269 a gallon, with the rebound while the 15-gallon fill still runs $18.52 more than a year ago.
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Urban Institute's tracker, released October 26, finds 49% of American families lack the resources to cover essential expenses, with gas up 33% since January 2025 while nominal earnings grew just 6%.
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the 2027 raise settles at 3.6 percent, a notch above the 3.5 percent that earlier October estimates floated, and the federal record now pins it down: about $75 a month for the average retiree, and a $192,300 wage ceiling for everyone paying in
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The average U.S. residential electricity price hit 18.16 cents per kilowatt-hour in August, up 3.4% from a year earlier, the one major household energy line still running above its 2025 level.
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Regular gasoline at $4.28 a gallon lifts a 15-gallon fill to about $64, even after pulling back from its September peak. Here is what the energy line and consumer rates mean as September PCE lands Thursday.
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The Series I composite stands at 4.26 percent: a 0.90 percent fixed rate plus a 1.67 percent semiannual inflation leg. Here is how the i bond rate is calculated, what a $10,000 purchase earns, and the fine print on limits, penalties, and taxes.
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Heating oil futures near $4.76 a gallon, up 98 percent in a year, are the fastest-rising line on the household energy bill as crude breaks to a five-month high, and the EIA's winter forecasts are about to be tested.
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The average credit card APR on accounts charged interest reached 22.36 percent in August, a 15.61 point margin over prime that is the widest since the Fed's series began, even as revolving credit finally turned down.
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Gasoline product supplied rose to 8.982 million barrels a day for the week ending Oct 16, up 6.25% year over year on a sharp rebound from the prior week. That resilience, not demand destruction, is the pump's trouble heading into a $110 crude barrel.
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