Ahead of the Tape
Dow Jones Newswires</br></br>[Today's Market Forecast]</br></br>Inflation, Real and Imagined</br></br>It shouldn't shock anyone that a dollar doesn't go as far as it used to. Still, today's inflation report could be an eye-opener.</br></br>Economists surveyed by and CNBC estimate, on average, that the Labor Department's September consumer-price index will show that prices picked up by 0.9% from their August level. That would be the biggest monthly gain since 1990. The economists' estimate would put the CPI 4.4% higher than it was a year earlier. That would be the biggest year-on-year gain since 1991.