{"id":73685,"date":"2026-10-27T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/econcalfed-decision-and-inflation-data-anchor-volatile-week\/73685\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:12:11","slug":"econcalfed-decision-and-inflation-data-anchor-volatile-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/econcalfed-decision-and-inflation-data-anchor-volatile-week\/73685\/","title":{"rendered":"[EconCal]Fed Decision and Inflation Data Anchor Volatile Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fed Interest Rate Decision and Policy Statement arrive tomorrow, <strong>Wednesday<\/strong>, at 2:00 pm, followed by Powell\u2019s presser at 2:30 pm. High volatility continues <strong>Thursday<\/strong> at 8:30 am with critical Core PCE inflation and annualized GDP data. <strong>Monday<\/strong> features ISM Manufacturing PMI at 10:00 am, leading into <strong>Tuesday\u2019s<\/strong> high-stakes US Midterm Elections. Today, <strong>Tuesday<\/strong>, monitor Consumer Confidence at 10:00 am. Markets remain tense as traders weigh cooling growth against persistent price pressures before the election.<\/p>\n<p>Focus on the Fed&#39;s tone regarding future hikes; a hawkish pivot could crush equities. Watch <strong>Thursday&#39;s<\/strong> PCE print closely, as any upside surprise will likely strengthen the USD and spike Treasury yields. Limit exposure ahead of <strong>Tuesday&#39;s<\/strong> election results to avoid gap risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fed Interest Rate Decision and Policy Statement arrive tomorrow, Wednesday, at 2:00 pm, followed by Powell\u2019s presser at 2:30 [&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":[1008,2004,3749,3806,3807,3880,4222,4223],"class_list":["post-73685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summary-snippets","tag-gdp","tag-usd","tag-pce","tag-spy","tag-qqq","tag-fomc","tag-interest-rates","tag-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73685","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=73685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73685\/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=73685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}