Official release row with the realised value, prior value, forecast field, exact announcement timestamp, and series chart in one canonical workspace.
Cleveland Fed Inflation Nowcasting
2026-08-12 12:30 UTC
A release-date view of the official series, capped at the selected announcement so the chart matches the page timestamp.
The official Consumer Price Index inflation row printed 3.4 for 2026-07-31. The previous value was 3.5 and the forecast field was 3.42.
Use the chart above to compare this release with the recent series path, then use the API endpoint below for point-in-time event studies and model features keyed to the stable release ID.
The values below are the machine-readable citation fields for this announcement. The local and UTC timestamps are kept visible because event studies and trading systems need the exact public release moment, not just the date.
| Public release ID | usd_inflation_2026-08-12 |
|---|---|
| API announcement ID | usd_inflation_2026-07-31 |
| Release time |
2026-08-12 12:30 UTC
|
| Reference period | 2026-07-31 |
| Actual value | 3.4 |
| Previous value | 3.5 |
| Forecast | 3.42 Cleveland Fed Inflation Nowcasting |
| Surprise | -0.02 |
| Announcement timestamp | 1786537800 |
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Field names are preserved for traceability and downstream testing.
{
"announcement_datetime": 1786537800,
"announcement_datetime_local": "2026-08-12T08:30:00-04:00",
"announcement_id": "usd_inflation_2026-07-31",
"change_from_previous": -0.10000000000000009,
"collected_at_iso": "2026-08-12T12:30:07.852663Z",
"collected_at_ns": 1786537807852662827,
"date": "2026-07-31",
"forecast": 3.42,
"forecast_source_label": "Cleveland Fed Inflation Nowcasting",
"observation_id": "usd_inflation_canonical_yoy_nsa_not_annualized_monthly_2026-07-31",
"pct_change_from_previous": -2.86,
"prediction_type": "model_nowcast",
"previous_announcement_datetime": 1784032200,
"previous_date": "2026-06-30",
"previous_value": 3.5,
"revisions": [
{
"epoch": 1786537800,
"val": 3.4
}
],
"source": "BLS",
"source_url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_08122026.htm",
"source_url_scope": "release",
"val": 3.4,
"val_mom": 0.1
}