Today, the Fed’s megaphone Nick Timiraos disclosed an important dataset (as shown).

This time, he almost pinpointed the core PCE with precision to 0.18%, and the overall PCE also directly gave a negative reading of -0.07%.
This isn’t a forecast.
This is the Fed, via his mouth, leaking the answer to the market in advance.

The so-called “value” of the new Fed communications agency is fully reflected at this moment—rather than saying it’s a financial reporter’s scenario analysis, it’s more like the policy side is laying the final-mile groundwork for expectation management.

For us traders, the signal value of this is overwhelming:
The core PCE’s 0.18% month-over-month implies that annualized it has already firmly landed within the Fed’s 2% target. And when overall PCE shows negative growth, it directly strikes “inflation” off the checklist of “policy constraints.” With the interest-rate-cut path and the pace of easing— the biggest hurdle earlier on—already removed, what’s left is merely the timetable and the magnitude.

When translated onto the market, this is a clear “tell” for liquid assets:
The top in the dollar and US Treasury yields is nailed down by this data—so in the short term, it’s hard to expect any big wave to be kicked up again. Gold’s macro foundation is further reinforced—under the dual boost of “inflation cooling” and “easing expectations heating up,” the logic pushing gold prices higher actually becomes even smoother. For risk assets like BTC and US stocks, over the past half year the biggest funding-side demon question—“will inflation rise again?”—can basically be put on hold for now.

But on timing, there’s one detail worth noting:
Precisely because the “leaked question in advance” has become market consensus, the bulls’ head start in pricing will have been completed for the most part before the actual data release. On the day PCE is officially published, if the numbers do arrive as expected, the short-term thing to watch out for is a rinse-and-dump where “good news is fully sold.”

In the long-cycle perspective, the logic is already closed-loop:
Inflation constraint removed → easing path becomes smooth → liquid assets benefit. The mid-to-long-term framework of going long risk assets and gold on dips now has even firmer macro backing.

Don’t get shaken off the bus by short-term volatility. That’s also one reason behind the recent continuous low-buy strategy.

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Declaration of interests: Currently holding long positions in gold and BTC.
【The above is for personal trading framework sharing only and does not constitute any investment advice】