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The CPI headline everyone's seeing isn't the number that matters Inflation printed 4.2% this morning. First 4-handle in three years, and it'll lead every story today. Looks ugly on the surface. Look one layer down, though. Core inflation, stripping out food and energy, came in soft... up just 0.2% on the month, below estimates and cooler than April. Almost all the heat was energy, up nearly 4%, and that's the Iran and oil story running straight through the pump. A supply shock, not the economy overheating. So the piece the Fed actually watches is cooling. The piece it can't touch is the one making the headline scary. Here's how the market's voting into the open. Our mega-cap trend reading, which had rolled over negative overnight, flipped back green on that soft core. The next leg down we were bracing for this morning got pulled back from the edge. But this isn't a relief rally, and that's the tell. Most sectors are red. Tech's the worst again, down over a percent. The only green is energy, bid off the very inflation that's the problem, and the usual defensives. The broad market's a coin flip. The soft core bought a reprieve, not a green light. A 4.2% headline with the 10-year still parked near its highs means the Fed isn't going anywhere, and higher-for-longer just passed another test. Watch one thing today... whether the big tech names can finally catch a real bid, or whether yields cap this again. That's the ballgame.

Published Jun 10, 2026Updated Jun 10, 20264 min read
The CPI headline everyone's seeing isn't the number that matters Inflation printed 4.2% this morning. First 4-handle in three years, and it'll lead every story today. Looks ugly on the surface. Look one layer down, though. Core inflation, stripping out food and energy, came in soft... up just 0.2% on the month, below estimates and cooler than April. Almost all the heat was energy, up nearly 4%, and that's the Iran and oil story running straight through the pump. A supply shock, not the economy overheating. So the piece the Fed actually watches is cooling. The piece it can't touch is the one making the headline scary. Here's how the market's voting into the open. Our mega-cap trend reading, which had rolled over negative overnight, flipped back green on that soft core. The next leg down we were bracing for this morning got pulled back from the edge. But this isn't a relief rally, and that's the tell. Most sectors are red. Tech's the worst again, down over a percent. The only green is energy, bid off the very inflation that's the problem, and the usual defensives. The broad market's a coin flip. The soft core bought a reprieve, not a green light. A 4.2% headline with the 10-year still parked near its highs means the Fed isn't going anywhere, and higher-for-longer just passed another test. Watch one thing today... whether the big tech names can finally catch a real bid, or whether yields cap this again. That's the ballgame.