CPI Week Opens Through a Thin Labor Day Book
Labor Day thins the book Monday; auctions and ECEC rebuild midweek; Thursday PPI and Friday CPI plus Real Earnings decide the inflation handoff into next week’s FOMC.
September 7–11, 2026
Labor Day closes the cash book Monday. Tuesday reopens into coupon and bill supply. Wednesday stacks Employer Costs with the 10-year. Thursday is PPI plus the long bond. Friday is CPI and Real Earnings — the inflation vote that lands before next week’s FOMC. The trade is the sequence, not a single headline.
Last week already wrote the handoff. Thursday accepted through 29,201. Friday’s hot payrolls sold into the PDC / CDO band, the open zone held the flush, and cash still closed soft under Thursday. Weekend Review left those locations on the desk for a thin Labor Day Globex book — not for a holiday chase. Missed levels stay missed.
This week is not another jobs sequence. Payrolls already printed. It is a holiday reopen, a Treasury coupon week, a compensation cost print, and a two-day inflation stack that ends Friday at 8:30 a.m. ET.
The expensive mistake is treating Monday Globex as a full New York vote. Cash equities are closed. Liquidity is thin. Location from last week travels; permission does not.
The second expensive mistake is dragging next week’s FOMC into Friday’s CPI. The Committee meets September 15–16. Blackout is already on. Friday answers prices. Next week answers policy.
The Week's Confirmed Decision Points
All times are Eastern. Schedule details below come from the named official agencies or company IR. Street estimates are not an official number; where they disagree, the print is the vote.
| Day | Time | Confirmed event | What traders need to learn |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon Sep 7 | Holiday | Labor Day. NYSE and Nasdaq cash equity markets closed. Fed daily/weekly statistical releases scheduled for Monday shift to Tuesday. | Thin Globex, not a cash session. Carry last week’s locations; do not invent a holiday accept. |
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