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US CPI rose 7.1% and core CPI 6.0%, both slower than expected, boosting hopes the Fed would slow its rate hikes. Risk assets rallied, and the baht strengthened to 34.58 per dollar.
Softer US inflation weakens the dollar, which tends to support dollar-priced commodities and lowers import costs for baht-based buyers.
After 1,637 past bearish macro events, US Dollar (Broad) moved a median -0.2% over 5 sessions (39% higher; middle half -0.6% to +0.3%), and -0.2% over 20.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.