ChainCatcher News: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the February Consumer Price Index (CPI) report tonight at 20:30 (Beijing time). The market expects inflation to ease but remain above the Federal Reserve's target.According to FactSet consensus forecasts, the February CPI is expected to rise by 0.3% month-on-month, with the year-on-year growth rate decreasing from 3.0% in January to 2.9%. If the forecast is accurate, this will be the first time since early 2023 that it falls below the 3% mark; core CPI is expected to rise by 0.3% month-on-month and 3.2% year-on-year.The tariffs and immigration restrictions of the Trump administration have raised new concerns in the market regarding the inflation outlook. Wells Fargo economists stated, "The February CPI report may initially reflect the impact of tariffs, but this is just the beginning." The combination of trade frictions and supply chain complexities may undermine the Federal Reserve's confidence in the trend of declining inflation and delay the market's expectations for interest rate cuts.

ChainCatcher News, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the unadjusted CPI year-on-year data for January 2025 tonight at 21:30 (Beijing time). The expected unadjusted CPI year-on-year rate for January in the U.S. is 2.9%, the previous value was 2.9%.

ChainCatcher News: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the January 2025 unadjusted CPI year-on-year data tonight at 21:30 Beijing time.The expected unadjusted CPI year-on-year for January in the U.S. is 2.9%, with the previous value also at 2.9%.

ChainCatcher News: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the December CPI year-on-year data tonight at 21:30 (UTC+8). The market expectation is 2.9%, a slight increase from the previous value of 2.7%.

ChainCatcher News, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Non-farm payrolls increased by 227,000 in November, and the unemployment rate remained at 4.2%, showing little change. Employment in sectors such as healthcare, leisure and hospitality, government, and social assistance is on the rise. Retail jobs decreased. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher News, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) stated in its employment report on Friday that it no longer plans to reduce the sample size of its key labor market survey, as the recently passed continuing resolution "allows BLS to use current Population Survey (CPS, also known as the household survey) funding at a faster pace."BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer first announced the plan to cut the sample size in June of this year, citing budget constraints and declining response rates that made the survey more expensive and difficult to conduct.The plan would reduce 5,000 households starting in early 2025, bringing the total down to 55,000. BLS received approximately $700 million in funding in the fiscal year that just ended in September. Advocacy group "Friends of BLS" and former White House economists recently urged lawmakers to increase funding by about $20 million for fiscal year 2025, but current proposals in the House and Senate fall far short of this request. The short-term funding bill passed in September will keep the government running until December, which includes $6 million in support for the CPS.

ChainCatcher news, according to the preliminary estimates of the annual benchmark revision released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the total number of non-farm jobs in the United States for March 2024 has been revised down by 818,000, a decrease of 0.5%.

ChainCatcher News: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has released the employment and wage survey report for the first quarter of 2024. In March 2024, the total number of jobs in the 370 largest counties in the U.S. was 153.5856 million, an increase of 1.3% year-over-year. In the first quarter of 2024, the average weekly wage in the U.S. rose to $1,527, an increase of 4.2% year-over-year.