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Inflation cooled in March, but economists expect prices to reaccelerate as some of President Trump's tariffs kick in.
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As part of the FOMC’s mandate, the Fed is making incremental changes to the federal funds rate to guide inflation closer to 2%. CPI data is one of the Fed’s measurements of our economy’s ...
Inflation slowed in March as gasoline, used car prices dropped. Trump paused many of his largest tariffs for 90 days but ...
Policymakers and economists say the latest data is only a temporary reprieve as tariffs could stoke higher inflation.
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Inflation slowed to 2.4% in the 12 months through March, as measured by the consumer-price index. That undershot the 2.6% ...
Consumers paid 2.1% more in December than they did a year ago for the basket of goods and services included in the Consumer Price Index [CPI]. A Government spokesperson said, “Today, the Ministry of ...
With inflation remaining on positive long-term trends, all eyes will be on April’s CPI report, which will likely price in some of the tariff tit-for-tat that’s rocked the stock market and ...
Consumer prices unexpectedly declined from a month earlier, while a fall in gasoline prices pushed the energy index lower.
Ad Feedback The latest reading of the Consumer Price Index — which showed inflation sharply cooling to an annual rate of 2.4% in March from 2.8% in February — lands as countries, businesses ...