🏛️💼 Inflation steady, growth solid: A look at the latest U.S. indicators and data

📊🗂️ Investors faced a mix of both newly released and somewhat stale data on Thursday.

🎯 Beginning with the PCE price index, the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge from Powell’s team showed price growth aligning almost perfectly with consensus expectations for November.

⚖️ As projected, overall prices advanced 0.2% in the second‑to‑last month of 2025—slipping from October’s 0.3% increase—and held steady at 2.8% on an annual basis. The year‑over‑year reading came in 0.1 percentage point warmer than the prior month.

👷Turning to labor‑market indicators, 200,000 Americans filed initial unemployment claims last week, essentially flat versus the previous week’s 199,000 and coming in 10,000 below economist projections.

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