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Used Cars Slide One Of The Few Major Components That Wasn't Softer Than Expected

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  • At first glance, used cars were one of the few major components that appeared to come in as expected rather than at the soft end, falling -0.45% M/M after two particularly strong 4.4% increases. That unsurprisingly provided most of the drag on the month, 0.16pps behind the 0.28pp drop in the overall core rate.
  • Core goods ex used cars again printed 0.00% M/M and averaged just 0.02% M/M through Q2.
  • The main two drags on the month came from the aforementioned pandemic categories already mentioned, with lodging (-0.06pps) and airfares (-0.04pps). The latter came from airfares sliding 8% on the month but as always, remember that tomorrow’s PPI data are the source data for PCE.
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