
Why Does One Inflation Report Move Markets So Much?
Eight-thirty a.m., eight times a year, the CPI reprices rate expectations in seconds — the anatomy of the market's most-watched economic release.
Markets News reports each trading session: which indices and yields moved, how currencies responded, where volatility repriced, and which release or auction explains the shift. Filed through the day and summarized at the close. For readers wanting an accurate record before opinion pieces appear.
Trading day reporting across equities, bonds and currencies, tying each move to the release, auction or flow behind it, from open through settlement.

Eight-thirty a.m., eight times a year, the CPI reprices rate expectations in seconds — the anatomy of the market's most-watched economic release.

Inflation expectations, growth surprises, Fed policy, and issuance supply — four engines, plus the plumbing, behind every basis point on the curve.

Zero-day options now account for roughly half of S&P 500 option volume — a structural change in how the market prices and transmits daily moves.

Four times a year, billions trade in the closing auction to match committees' decisions — the machinery behind the market's quietest big days.

Money does not leave the market so much as move around it — the mechanics behind why leadership changes hands between tech, energy, and utilities.