{"id":429421,"date":"2026-04-09T19:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/us-february-pce-inflation-2-8-y-y-vs-2-8-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:40:16","slug":"us-february-pce-inflation-2-8-y-y-vs-2-8-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/us-february-pce-inflation-2-8-y-y-vs-2-8-expected-429421\/","title":{"rendered":"US February PCE inflation 2.8% y\/y vs 2.8% expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/us-january-pce-core-26-vs-26-expected-20250228\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow\">Prior <\/a>was 2.8%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Core PCE (excluding food &amp; energy):<\/p>\n<ul class=\"[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\">\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\">Prior was +2.8%<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\">Core m\/m +0.4% vs +0.4% exp<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\">Unrounded core PCE ___% vs +0.285% m\/m prior <\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\">PCE excluding food, energy and housing ___% m\/m vs +0.3% m\/m prior<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\">Supercore (services ex-shelter) +0.2% m\/m and ___% y\/y<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Headline PCE<\/p>\n<ul class=\"[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\">\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\">Headline PCE +2.8% y\/y vs +2.8% expected<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\">Deflator +0.4% m\/m vs +0.4% expected<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\">Unrounded headline ___% vs +0.325% m\/m prior (unrounded exp ___%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Consumer spending and income for February:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\">\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\">Personal income -0.1% vs +0.3% expected. Prior month +0.4%<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\">Personal spending +0.5% vs +0.5% expected. Prior month +0.3%<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\">Real personal spending +0.1% vs 0.0% prior<\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\">Savings rate 4.0% vs 4.6% prior<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior was 2.8% Core PCE (excluding food &amp; energy): Prior was +2.8% Core m\/m +0.4% vs +0.4% exp Unrounded core PCE ___% vs +0.285% m\/m prior PCE excluding food, energy and housing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}