Day September 30, 2026

Budget, Personal Loans

Core PCE Holds at 3.0% in August as Consumer Spending Jumps 0.9%

Wide view down a bright modern supermarket refrigerated dairy aisle with tall glass front coolers lining both sides, a shopper's hands lifting a plain white carton out of an open cooler door and lowering it into a mostly empty metal shopping cart with a blue handle, pale gray polished floor reflecting overhead fluorescent light strips, the far end of the aisle falling out of focus

Core PCE inflation held at 3.0% in August while consumer spending jumped 0.9% and the saving rate fell to 4.1%, leaving the Fed a split signal before the October FOMC meeting.

Mitch Strohm
September 30, 2026