{"id":642247,"date":"2026-08-12T14:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=838920"},"modified":"2026-08-12T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:40:20","slug":"inflation-cools-bitcoin-stalls-as-fed-faces-its-next-big-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/inflation-cools-bitcoin-stalls-as-fed-faces-its-next-big-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation Cools, Bitcoin Stalls as Fed Faces Its Next Big Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/inflation-cools-bitcoin-stalls-as-fed-faces-its-next-big-test-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"BLS CPI report for July\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>U.S. inflation cooled for a second straight month in July, another sign that spring\u2019s energy-driven price shock is fading even as inflation remains stubbornly above the Federal Reserve\u2019s 2% target. The U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.1% in July on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Aug. 12. That landed [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. inflation cooled for a second straight month in July, another sign that spring\u2019s energy-driven price shock is fading even as inflation remains stubbornly above the Federal Reserve\u2019s 2% target. The U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.1% in July on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Aug. 12. That landed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":642248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-642247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}