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Long Covid in Real Estate Weighs on Core Inflation
Shelter rents are still rising and will offset falls in prices elsewhere; any uptick in headline inflation is likely to trigger another bout of market volatility.
In a post-pandemic shift, Walmart is now outperforming Amazon.
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It’s time to mark cards for what has become the single most important data release for global markets: the US consumer price inflation data, due at 8:30 a.m. on the East Coast. This one is consequential, although perhaps not as important as it feels at present.