Morning Edition · Friday, October 16, 2026Published at 1:52 AM EDT · New York
September consumer prices rose 3.7% from a year earlier, and South Korea's Kospi fell 8% in the same period before Seoul's chipmakers rebounded.

Bitcoin slipped below $80,000 after another hotter-than-expected United States inflation reading, Bitcoin Magazine reported. It then climbed back to $82,500 within two hours of the dip, according to CoinDesk. A French-language market post f…
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Inflation Reacceleration Reopens the Hiking Cycle
US core inflation prints keep coming in above consensus, forcing markets to price renewed Fed tightening rather than the cuts that underpinned 2025 risk-asset positioning, so each upside CPI surprise repeats the same transmission — higher front-end rates, a firmer dollar, and compressed multiples on long-duration and leveraged assets.
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