ManifoldPlay moneyMacro / FedDevelopingUpdated 37m ago

Will September 2026 headline PCE inflation be at least 0.3% month-over-month?

As of Oct 16, 2026, 4:18 PM ET, Manifold priced this market at 83.1% (little changed over 24 hours). It had 30 mana traded in the past 24 hours and 100 mana of pool liquidity. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
83.1%
Little changed over 24 hours
Not live — snapshot Oct 16, 4:18 PM ET

Play-money market (mana, not dollars) — thin market where small orders can move the price, traded by a small group of accounts.

Price historyManifold

Source: Manifold price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Moderate

Consensus stability

Stable

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

Thin

Pool liquidity

100 mana

Bid-ask spread

n/a

automated market maker

24h volume

30 mana

Total volume

478.7 mana

Play money: depth is in mana, so it says nothing about real-money conviction.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

A few accounts
37%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

11

Trades

37

over 70 days

Largest order

78 mana

446.6 mana traded across these 37 trades (last 70 days).

A small group of accounts did most of the trading — neither one whale nor a broad crowd.

Recent trade activity$446.6 traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

This market resolves YES if the initial BEA Personal Income and Outlays release for September 2026 reports that headline PCE inflation was 0.3% or higher month-over-month. Use the all-items/headline PCE price index in the first BEA Personal Income and Outlays release covering September 2026, and use the percent change from the preceding month.

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View full official resolution rules

This market resolves YES if the initial BEA Personal Income and Outlays release for September 2026 reports that headline PCE inflation was 0.3% or higher month-over-month. Use the all-items/headline PCE price index in the first BEA Personal Income and Outlays release covering September 2026, and use the percent change from the preceding month. Resolve NO if the initial September 2026 headline PCE price-index month-over-month change is 0.2% or lower, zero, or negative. Use BEA's reported rounded one-decimal percent change. Do not use core PCE excluding food and energy, current-dollar PCE spending, real PCE, CPI, PPI, annualized rates, year-over-year rates, personal income, disposable personal income, personal outlays, saving rate, or later revisions unless BEA corrects the initial September 2026 release before resolution. If the September 2026 Personal Income and Outlays release is delayed, wait for the first BEA release containing the September 2026 headline PCE price-index month-over-month percent change unless there is no such release by November 4, 2026, in which case resolve N/A. Creation context: {"latest_official_context": {"future_releases_at_creation": "May 2026 scheduled for 2026-06-25; June 2026 scheduled for 2026-07-30; September 2026 scheduled for 2026-11-04.", "release": "Personal Income and Outlays, September 2026", "release_date": "2026-11-04", "september_2026_core_pce_price_index_mom": 0.2, "september_2026_core_pce_price_index_yoy": 3.3, "september_2026_pce_price_index_mom": 0.4, "september_2026_pce_price_index_yoy": 3.8}, "metric": "PCE price index percent change from August 2026 to September 2026", "related_non_duplicates": ["May, June, and September 2026 headline/core PCE inflation markets are prior-reference-month markets.", "September 2026 core PCE inflation excludes food and energy, while this market uses the headline/all-items PCE price index.", "September 2026 CPI-U, core CPI-U, PPI, import/export prices, and AHE markets are different statistical releases.", "Current-dollar PCE spending, real PCE, personal income, DPI, saving-rate, and outlays markets are not PCE price-index duplicates."], "release_schedule": "BEA release schedule lists Personal Income and Outlays, September 2026 for 2026-11-04 at 08:30 AM Eastern.", "resolver_surface": "Initial BEA Personal Income and Outlays release for September 2026", "series": "Headline/all-items PCE price index", "threshold": "+0.3% month-over-month or higher"}. Source preflight snapshot: {"checked_at": "2026-06-18T14:10:10Z", "urls": {"bea_april_2026_release": {"has_april_core_02": true, "has_april_pce_04": true, "has_november_4": false, "has_personal_income_outlays_september_2026": false, "length": 51804, "ok": true, "september_2026_schedule_row": null, "url": "https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/personal-income-and-outlays-april-2026"}, "bea_core_pce_data": {"has_april_core_02": false, "has_april_pce_04": false, "has_november_4": false, "has_personal_income_outlays_september_2026": false, "length": 43765, "ok": true, "september_2026_schedule_row": null, "url": "https://www.bea.gov/data/personal-consumption-expenditures-price-index-excluding-food-and-energy"}, "bea_pce_data": {"has_april_core_02": false, "has_april_pce_04": false, "has_november_4": false, "has_personal_income_outlays_september_2026": false, "length": 42175, "ok": true, "september_2026_schedule_row": null, "url": "https://www.bea.gov/data/personal-consumption-expenditures-price-index"}, "bea_schedule": {"has_april_core_02": false, "has_april_pce_04": false, "has_november_4": true, "has_personal_income_outlays_september_2026": true, "length": 85615, "ok": true, "september_2026_schedule_row": "October 29 8:30 AM N ews Personal Income and Outlays, September 2026", "url": "https://www.bea.gov/news/schedule"}}}. Sources / resolver surfaces: - BEA release schedule: https://www.bea.gov/news/schedule - BEA headline PCE price-index data page: https://www.bea.gov/data/personal-consumption-expenditures-price-index - BEA core PCE price-index data page: https://www.bea.gov/data/personal-consumption-expenditures-price-index-excluding-food-and-energy - BEA Personal Income and Outlays, April 2026 release: https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/personal-income-and-outlays-april-2026

What could move this market next?

  • The scheduled event takes placeNovember 4, 2026 at 7:25 AM ET

    The contract resolves on the event's outcome.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 16, 4:55 PM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±16 pts.

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What's happening

low classifier confidence
Thin market

Thin book and/or wide spread. Small orders can move this price disproportionately, so any single print is noisy and easily overread.

  • Thin book and/or wide spread.

Read with caution —Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
16Low
Where the price path tends to go next554 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet97%
  • Thin-liquidity spike1%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life —
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward Stale price.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Change (pts)1H0.06H0.024H0.07D0.0

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