
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.
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.