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title: "Personal Consumption Expenditures - Price Index (MoM): 0.2"
description: "Treasuries (close 2026-08-25): 2s 4.17% (-7.0bp), 10s 4.64% (-6.0bp), 30s 5.17% (-6.0bp). Tape (close 2026-08-25): VIX 15.45, 2s10s +47bp."
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Daily brief
              26 Aug 2026, 21:05 UTC



# Personal Consumption Expenditures - Price Index (MoM): 0.2, 10s -6bp

desk brief, Wed 26 Aug 2026



            Treasuries (close 2026-08-25): 2s 4.17% (-7.0bp), 10s 4.64% (-6.0bp), 30s 5.17% (-6.0bp).

Tape (close 2026-08-25): VIX 15.45, 2s10s +47bp.

Narrative: US core PCE inflation expected to remain stubbornly high, urging the Fed to hike rates

What mattered:

- Personal Consumption Expenditures - Price Index (MoM): 0.2
- US data buoys dollar as Fed hike expectations nudged higher
- Fed Can Avoid Hiking on Cooler Data, Economist Roth Says
- U.S. inflation rises again and stays well above Fed’s target. Rate hike might be in play.
- US core PCE inflation expected to remain stubbornly high, urging the Fed to hike rates






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