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• CPI coming up in 14 minutes. Consensus on core is for a barely 0.2% print, (more like 0.15%). That would keep the y/y barely at 2.3%.

• Remember to join me at 9am for a (FREE) live interactive video event at http://events.shindig.com/event/tmenduringinvestments

• okay, core 0.1%, y/y to 2.2%. Yayy! And by the way it was only 0.11% so not close. y/y to 2.21%.

• core rate is only 1.8% over last 3 months, vs 2.0% over last 6 and 2.2% over last 9. November tightening is wholly out.

• Housing accelerated, Medical care roughly unch. Educ/Communication dropped. Getting breakdown now.

• Headline was also soft. Market was 241.475 bid before the number and 241.428 was the print. Still rounded to 0.3% m/m though.

• Bonds don't love this as much as I thought they would. 10y note up about 4 ticks after the data.

• 10y inflation swaps also didn't do much. Close to 2% for first time in a long, long time.

• Primary rents 3.70% from 3.78%, I was reading last month. But OER still up, 3.38% from 3.31%.

• New and used cars -1.16% vs -0.95%, so more weakness there.

• In Med care: Drugs 5.38% vs 4.59%, ouch. But prof svcs 3.22% vs 3.35%, and hospitals 5.64% vs 5.81%, and insurance 8.37% vs 9.10%.

• But those are all retracements within trend.

• Tuition ebbed to 2.32% vs 2.53%, and "information and info processing" -1.98% vs -0.90%. Those two add up to 7% of CPI.

• I can see why bonds aren't super excited. This isn't a trend change. It looks like a pause.

• ok, have to go get ready for the video event. See you at http://events.shindig.com/event/tmenduringinvestments ... in about 10.

• Probably good news from Median as well. I see 0.17%, bringing y/y down to 2.54% vs 2.61%. But hsg is median category so I may be off.

I covered some stuff in the Shindig event, but it's worth showing a couple of charts. Here is health insurance. You can see the little drop this month isn't exactly something that would make you say "whew! Glad that's over!"

This next chart, also in medical care, is the year/year change in the cost of medicinal drugs (prescription and non-prescription). Also, not soothing. And these are where the important things are happening in CPI right now.

Finally, the big momma: Owners' Equivalent Rent. This is not looking like it's rolling over! And if it's not rolling over, it's not likely that inflation overall is rolling over.

In short, the monthly weakness was enough to sooth the Fed and take them off the table for November. And, unless the next figure is really, really bad – like over 0.3% - then they'll still say "two of the last four are soft." The December Fed meeting, for what it's worth, is the day before the CPI is released. The Fed won't know that number in advance, although nowadays with "nowcasting" they'll have a clue. But at this point, unless next month's CPI is very high and/or the Payrolls number is very strong, I think a rate hike in December is also unlikely.

That's good for markets in the short run. But inflation is rising, and that's bad for markets in the medium-run!

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