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Today's US July consumer price inflation data will be less precise than in the past. There are more gaps in the data, and those gaps are filled by (educated) guesswork. Blunting consumer price precision will not impact markets however—investors are straining to second-guess what the Federal Reserve will do with policy. The reaction to a single weaker employment report shows the potency of any data release at the moment.