Hot US CPI Revives Fed Hike Bets as Stocks and Gold Slip

US CPI hotter than expected revives Fed rate-hike expectations, pressuring stocks and gold.

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A hotter-than-anticipated US CPI reading has triggered a repricing of Federal Reserve rate expectations, with markets now pricing in a higher probability of rate hikes rather than cuts. This shift has weakened both equities and gold—traditional beneficiaries of lower-rate environments. The move reflects a fundamental repricing of terminal rate assumptions and suggests traders are rotating out of risk assets into higher-yielding alternatives.

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