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* Business inflation expectations unchanged at 2.5% in Sep: Atlanta Fed
* US consumer inflation rebounds in August to 3.7% annual rate:

Despite the pickup in the annual rate of US headline consumer inflation in August, the core rate of CPI suggests that the disinflation trend in recent history is intact. Core CPI, which is considered a more reliable measure of the trend, continued falling last month for the year-over-year change. The 3-month annualized pace of core CPI fell even more, implying that disinflation is set to continue in the near term.