BLS yanks 12-month inflation readings from October CPI report
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will publish its October consumer price index on Tuesday without the headline 12-month inflation figures — the number most people mean when they say "inflation." The gap traces back to the 2025 government shutdown, which stopped the agency from collecting chunks of October price data it can't recover.
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The October CPI report lands Tuesday missing its most-quoted number. BLS won't publish the 12-month percentage change for either the overall index or core CPI, the measure that strips out food and energy. The agency also won't release year-over-year real earnings growth, a related figure that depends on the same missing data.
The hole comes from the 2025 government shutdown, which blocked BLS from gathering parts of October 2025 price data. Spokesperson Cody Parkinson said the agency had no way to obtain that information retroactively. Without it, the year-over-year math simply can't be run.
Investors still get something. The report will carry month-over-month comparisons, and economists expect CPI rose 0.3% in October from September, with core CPI up 0.2%. The 12-month reading had been running at 3.7% in September — the last clean year-over-year figure until the data gap closes.
TopicsBureau of Labor Statistics · Cody Parkinson · CPI · core CPI · Investing.com
Source: investing.com
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