{"id":127222,"date":"2025-10-17T04:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127222\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T04:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:06:08","slug":"record-highs-for-asx-200-as-trade-wars-and-rate-cuts-shape-markets-ahead-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127222\/","title":{"rendered":"Record highs for ASX 200 as trade wars and rate cuts shape markets | Ahead of the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US: CPI<\/p>\n<p><b>Date:\u00a0Friday 24 October at 8.30pm SGT<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For August, headline inflation in the US increased by 0.4%, in line with expectations. This saw the annual rate of headline inflation rise to 2.9%, below the forecast of 3%.<\/p>\n<p>The annual core CPI, which excludes volatile items like food and energy, rose by 0.3% month-on-month (MoM), which kept the annual core inflation rate steady at 3.1%, unchanged from July, and in line with market expectations.<\/p>\n<p>For September the expectation is for the annual headline inflation rate to rise to 3.1% YoY, which would be its highest reading since May 2024, and for the core measure to remain at 3.1% YoY.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of this, the US interest rate market is fully priced for a 25 bp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ig.com\/sg\/glossary-trading-terms\/federal-reserve-definition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Reserve (Fed)<\/a> cut in October and fully priced for another 25 bp cut in December, as the Fed prioritises supporting a cooling labour market amid persistent inflation concerns.<\/p>\n<p>US Core inflation ratechart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US: CPI Date:\u00a0Friday 24 October at 8.30pm SGT For August, headline inflation in the US increased by 0.4%,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[79,18,19,17,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-127222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}