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The June inflation data is likely to keep Federal Reserve officials cautious, open to cutting interest rates later this year without committing to any course of action. The consumer-price index wasn’t
The Consumer Price Index in June rose 2.7% on an annual basis, a sign inflation around the U.S. is creeping up after declining earlier this year. The CPI was forecast to rise 2.7% last month, higher than last month's rate of 2.4%, according to economists polled by financial data firm FactSet.
Tuesday's mixed CPI report has further solidified expectations that the Fed will continue to hold interest rates steady. Read more here.
Businesses across the economy are passing increased input costs from tariffs along to consumers in the form of higher prices, the Federal Reserve’s latest anecdotal survey of domestic economic
Initial early gains following the June data were reversed as pass-through effects from tariffs stoke concerns.
While pundits looked with their magnifying glasses for tariffs in consumer goods prices, it was in services, which are not tariffed, where inflation took off again.
Consumer prices posted the biggest increase in June in five months and are likely to keep the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates soon, but there only scattered signs of tariff-related inflation.