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Consumer price growth likely decelerated in September due to a drop in gasoline prices. But core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices, has proved sticker and likely fell by less.\u00a0The consumer price index reading for October will be reported on Nov. 14 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n

The October CPI report is expected to show that the pace of inflation slowed to 3.3% in the month on a year-over-year basis, down from the 3.7% rate recorded in September, according to economists surveyed by FactSet. On a month-over-month basis, economists predict that headline inflation grew by 0.1%, below the 0.4% pace recorded in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Expectations for moderating inflation are based largely on the drop in energy prices in October.
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\n fell from \u200b\u200ban average of $3.96 a gallon nationwide in September to $3.74 last month, according to the Department of Energy. \u201cGiven we saw a pretty meaningful decline in gas prices in October, that should drive a pretty weak headline number,\u201d says Matthew Bush, U.S. economist at Guggenheim Investments.<\/p>\n

Additionally, recent declines in commodities prices could reduce food-price inflation in Tuesday\u2019s print, writes William Blair\u2019s macro analyst, Richard de Chazal. In particular, the CRB\u2019s Foodstuff index is down almost 10% from its July peak, de Chazal writes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet, the forecast for October\u2019s inflation rate isn\u2019t entirely sunny. Core CPI, generally considered a better gauge of inflation growth than the headline number, is expected to have held steady in the month, according to FactSet. In September, core CPI measured 4.1% year over year. It ticked up by 0.4% month to month, and economists expect that the growth rate in October was the same. <\/p>\n

September\u2019s core CPI readings showed the smallest annual increase in two years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bush said he expects Tuesday\u2019s core reading to be a bit of a \u201cweird one,\u201d noting that some technical factors could push up the inflation rate relative to September. Core CPI might even exceed consensus expectations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of those technical factors is a planned update in the methodology of the calculations used for health insurance costs, which will be implemented starting with the October 2023 indexes, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The agency said it would be smoothing the index to reduce the volatility in the annual data and incorporating semiannual financial data to reduce lag in the available information.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty likely that\u2019s going to switch [healthcare] from being a drag on inflation to a contributor,\u201d Bush says. <\/p>\n

He added that the change likely will cause the so-called supercore rate, or core services inflation excluding housing, to tick up. The supercore is an inflation measure that the Fed has zeroed in on in recent months as concerns about services inflation have deepened.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bush also noted that some residual seasonality-adjustment issues that likely pulled down inflation readings over the summer will push up inflation readings this fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose two factors together aren\u2019t really indicative of the trend in real, true inflation, but could bias [Tuesday\u2019s] numbers up a bit and stoke concerns in the market and the Fed that inflation is getting stickier and harder to bring down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Yet even with a steady or rising core inflation reading, the Fed is unlikely to get back into the mode of hiking interest rates, Bush said. <\/p>\n

Fed officials\u2019 increasingly cautious tone, paired with the weak October jobs report and continued lags in the tightening effects of monetary policy, likely indicate the Fed has finished hiking rates in the current policy cycle, Bush said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven with a little bit of an upside surprise tomorrow, it would take significantly more evidence to get the Fed to hike in December,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The CPI report will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n

Write to Megan Leonhardt at megan.leonhardt@barrons.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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