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The Week Ahead: A Quiet Data Window After the 4% Fed, PCE Next Week

Published September 20, 20264 min read

Empty stone government building facade with columns at dawn, soft golden light and deep navy shadows — The data calendar goes quiet this week — but the levels the Fed left behind are still doing the talking Illustration: MarketIntelLabs

This is the quietest data week of September, and that emptiness is the story. The Federal Reserve already hiked 25 basis points to a 4% target on Sep 16 ( the September FOMC decision ), and no major inflation or labor print lands in the Sept 21-25 window: August PCE arrives Sep 30, September CPI not until Oct 14, and the next payrolls Oct 2. What the market gets instead is Fed-speaker tone, one tape-leading report out of Costco, and a five-day tape that must decide whether last week's hawkish shock and a 5% 10-year are the new base case or a week that overcorrected.

Key Takeaways The calendar is empty of tier-one data until August PCE on Sep 30, so Fed-speaker tone and Costco earnings carry t…

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