Entity

Inflation

The rate at which prices rise across an economy; central banks steer it with interest rates.

As of 2 Nov 2026Last evidence 2 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • Federal Reserve holds fire on interest rates despite intensifying inflation

    Reported event · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 48 separate publishers

  • Bank of Japan Signals 2% Inflation Target Achieved, Strengthening Case for Further Rate Hikes

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • Finance ministry sees FY27 growth at 7.3%, flags inflation risks

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 10 separate publishers

  • Gold Slips Below $4,000 As Oil Prices, US Inflation Fuel Fed Rate Hike Bets

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • ECB holds rates at 2.5% as Lagarde announces early exit with inflation near double the target

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 13 events and claims involving Inflation

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 281 mentions on 2 Nov 2026, against 247 on 12 Oct 2026 (+14%).
  • State Last recorded change: coverage state went from rising to steady on 2 Nov 2026 (11 changes recorded since 21 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 1 Nov 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Will inflation reach more than 5% in 2026?” moved from 8% to 8% Yes since 18 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

8,225 documents · 544 publishers · 18% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 2 Nov 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.176: about 82% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 6 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Inflation

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

OilAIIranFederal ReserveTreasuryMiddle EastTrump
  • Interest Rates · 3,003 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Oil · 2,696 shared documents
  • AI · 2,093 shared documents
  • Iran · 1,968 shared documents
  • Federal Reserve · 1,894 shared documents
  • Treasury · 1,885 shared documents
  • Oil Prices · 1,536 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Middle East · 1,508 shared documents
  • Trump · 1,482 shared documents
  • CPI · 1,366 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 281 mentions on 2 Nov 2026 with 247 on 12 Oct 2026 (+14%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +26% from 18 Sept 2026 to 2 Nov 2026, between 56 and 405 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Inflation, day by day.

Market price, cited

8% Yes

priced 2 Nov 2026 · relation: subject of the question

the market: 8% → 8% Yes (0pts, from 20 Sept 2026 to 2 Nov 2026)

on “Will inflation reach more than 5% in 2026?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about Inflation

“Will inflation reach more than 5% in 2026?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/c7cd585961f6b5c32f68f213 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name inflation.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Inflation

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Federal Reserve holds fire on interest rates despite intensifying inflation

    Reported event · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 48 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • Federal Reserve holds fire on interest rates despite intensifying inflation · reported by two · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 48 separate publishers
    • Federal Reserve keeps rates unchanged despite elevated inflation, gives little signal of its next move · could not check · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 19 separate publishers

  • Bank of Japan Signals 2% Inflation Target Achieved, Strengthening Case for Further Rate Hikes

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Finance ministry sees FY27 growth at 7.3%, flags inflation risks

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 10 separate publishers

    single source

  • Gold Slips Below $4,000 As Oil Prices, US Inflation Fuel Fed Rate Hike Bets

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    single source

  • ECB holds rates at 2.5% as Lagarde announces early exit with inflation near double the target

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Australian Dollar: Persistent inflation may prompt another RBA rate hike - Standard Chartered

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    could not check

  • Bank of Canada raises interest rate to 2.5% as inflation pressures mount

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 9 separate publishers

    single source

  • Fed expected to hold interest rates steady as inflation tops midterm voters’ concerns

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 11 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Federal Reserve interest rate decision looms as inflation and gas prices impact consumers

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    could not check

  • RBI may hike repo rate to 6.25% by H1 2027, warns Deutsche Bank as inflation risks persist

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    single source

  • U.S. inflation heats up in September, supporting expectations of Fed rate hike

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    could not check

  • Economic indicator: inflation

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 16 Oct 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Economic indicator: congress & inflation

    Registered event · reported 6 Oct 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

Walk the record from Inflation

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Inflation

Entity.

Evidence
8,225 documents · 544 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 4 Apr 2026, last seen 2 Nov 2026
Measured
18% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
2 Nov 2026
26 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (4)

For machines: this record as JSON

Watch this

What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Inflation, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Other markets materially about Inflation

Markets whose question is about Inflation or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Inflation and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

  • 41.1% Yes

    “Will South Korea’s 2026 Annual Inflation be between 2.7% and 2.9%?”

    Polymarket · priced 2 Nov 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “inflation” is named in the question · close date not stated in the question

What it connects to

Related records.

Recorded history

  • 2 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 29 Oct 2026

  • 29 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 26 Oct 2026

  • 29 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 26 Oct 2026

  • 26 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 24 Oct 2026

  • 26 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 24 Oct 2026

  • 24 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 22 Oct 2026

  • 24 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 22 Oct 2026

  • 22 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 21 Oct 2026

11 changes recorded since 21 Oct 2026; the newest 8 shown, newest first.

Ask about InflationWatch Inflation

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 2 Nov 2026.