{"id":58461,"date":"2026-02-13T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/econcalnavigating-key-economic-events-inflation-and-fed-policy-in-focus\/58461\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:12:27","slug":"econcalnavigating-key-economic-events-inflation-and-fed-policy-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/econcalnavigating-key-economic-events-inflation-and-fed-policy-in-focus\/58461\/","title":{"rendered":"[EconCal]Navigating Key Economic Events: Inflation and Fed Policy in Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All eyes are on <strong>today&#39;s<\/strong> Consumer Price Index (CPI) report at 8:30 am EST, a pivotal release following a surprisingly strong jobs report that has markets on edge. The week&#39;s focus will then shift to the Federal Reserve with the release of the FOMC Minutes on <strong>Wednesday<\/strong> at 2:00 pm EST, which will provide deeper insight into the central bank&#39;s policy outlook. Capping the week, the Fed&#39;s preferred inflation gauge, the Core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index, alongside crucial Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data, is due on <strong>Friday<\/strong> at 8:30 am EST, which will heavily influence future rate expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Traders should anticipate significant market volatility around the 8:30 am EST inflation data releases both <strong>today<\/strong> and next <strong>Friday<\/strong>. The details within the <strong>Wednesday<\/strong> FOMC Minutes could realign market expectations regarding the Fed&#39;s future policy path. Speeches by Fed officials Daly, Bostic, and Kashkari throughout the week could also serve as catalysts for intraday price swings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All eyes are on today&#39;s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report at 8:30 am EST, a pivotal release following a surprisingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"rank_math_schema_Article":[],"rank_math_focus_keyword":[],"rank_math_description":[],"financial_data_references":[],"stock_symbols_mentioned":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6803],"tags":[1008,3710,3712,3749,3880,4223,10381],"class_list":["post-58461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summary-snippets","tag-gdp","tag-federal-reserve","tag-cpi","tag-pce","tag-fomc","tag-inflation","tag-marketvolatility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}