US October inflation report will have no annual rate

What happened. The US federal government was shut down from October 1 to November 12, 2025. BLS could not collect most October 2025 prices and issued no report for that month. It carried September prices forward to October 2025, but did not publish the October index for most series.

What it means now. Annual inflation is the change in the index from the same month a year earlier. With no October 2025 index, there is no annual figure for October 2026. BLS flagged this in advance in its FAQ, and on November 9 a BLS spokesperson confirmed it to Investing.com. For the same reason, annual real earnings growth will also be missing.

What remains. BLS will publish the seasonally adjusted monthly change as usual. In September prices rose 0.6% on the month and 3.7% on the year, and core inflation, without food and energy, was 2.6% on the year. Gasoline was up 34.2% from a year earlier.

How to read the report. Watch the monthly numbers: headline and core. To compare with last year, analysts will build their own estimates, for example using November or September 2025. Those estimates will differ. There will be no official annual figure for October.

حقائق مؤكدة

• BLS will not publish 12-month CPI changes for October 2026 for indexes where October 2025 data are not available.^[1][3]
• The US federal government was shut down or short-staffed from October 1 to November 12, 2025; BLS could not collect October 2025 survey data and issued no October 2025 CPI release.^[1]
• Without October 2025 data, the 12-month change cannot be calculated for headline or core CPI; annual real earnings growth will also be unavailable.^[3]
• Monthly changes will still be published; per Investing.com, economists expect CPI up 0.3% on the month and core up 0.2%.^[3]
• The October 2026 CPI report is scheduled for November 10, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.^[2]
• In September 2026 CPI rose 0.6% on the month and 3.7% on the year; core CPI rose 2.6% on the year.^[2]

التبعات

• مؤكدThere will be no official annual inflation rate for October on November 10.
• قراءتناMarkets may react more strongly than usual to the monthly figures, and media will quote different homemade annual estimates. This is our inference.
• قراءتناThe Fed will make its December rate decision with a less familiar inflation picture. This is our inference.

لا يزال مجهولًا

• What the monthly inflation rate for October will be
• How the Fed and markets will judge the annual trend without an official figure
• Whether the annual figure returns with the November report

من يتأثر

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المصادر

1. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: 2025 federal government shutdown impact on the Consumer Price Index 16 سبتمبر 2026 · رسمي
2. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: CPI Home: September 2026 data and next release date 14 أكتوبر 2026 · رسمي
3. Investing.com: BLS will omit 12-month CPI, Core CPI figures from October report 9 نوفمبر 2026 · إعلام