All Eyes on This Week’s Inflation Report

Wall Street Journal: “Not every monthly inflation report is created equally. In an economy with price pressures, January has packed a bigger punch. Price hikes in recent years have been exceptionally strong in the month of January, reflecting outsize turn-of-the-year price resets.”

“The upshot is that inflation reports due this week could show whether the Federal Reserve’s fight to bring inflation down has cleared a key hurdle.”