Trump has promised to cut regulations, impose sweeping tariffs, overhaul energy policy and lower interest rates. But not all of those measures will bring down inflation.
Concerns about inflation have been pegged as a major catalyst for big swings in longer Treasury yields in recent months. The 10-year Treasury yield hit a peak of 4.8% recently, but has since eased back to about 4.
U.S. consumer sentiment weakened in January for the first time in six months amid worries about the labor market and potential higher prices for goods if President Donald Trump's new administration presses ahead with planned tariffs on imports.
At their last meeting in December, U.S. Federal Reserve officials were worried about inflation getting stuck above their 2% target and had watched job gains seesaw in what seemed an emerging decline.
Economists and analysts aren’t convinced that an expansion of oil and gas production will lower consumer prices.
Trump will probably seek to ease inflation and lower prices by drilling for more oil, loosening regulations, reducing federal spending, experts say.
Brazil's annual inflation rate slowed less than expected in early January, official data showed on Friday, cementing the likelihood that the central bank will hike interest rates by 100 basis points at its meeting next week.
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Four former Asbury Park School District officials said they were fired after exposing a scheme to inflate grades and improve the district's image.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced inflation refund checks of up to $500 will be paid to eligible New Yorkers.
Corporate earnings are coming in strong. Investors are also seeing the Trump administration take a less aggressive approach to tariffs than some had expected.
And all this productivity is why wage growth keeps beating inflation, said Betsey Stevenson, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan. “Real wage growth has to come from productivity growth. Because we’re doing more with less, we get more in the end,” she said.