While inflation has declined sharply from its peak in 2022, price increases have remained above Fed\u2019s target rate of 2%<\/p>\n
Consumer prices remained relatively stable in February even as some economists have warned prices could rise again amid Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> trade war and stock markets have fallen on fears of a recession.<\/p>\n According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics latest Consumer Price Index (CPI), which tracks the prices of a range of goods and services, the annualized inflation<\/a> in February was 2.8%, a 0.2% decrease from January\u2019s year-over-year rate of 3%. <\/a>The month-by-month price increase for all goods minus the volatile food and energy industries was 0.2%,<\/strong> compared to January\u2019s 0.4%.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While inflation has declined sharply from its peak in 2022, price increases have remained above Fed\u2019s target rate of 2% Consumer prices remained relatively stable in February even as some economists have warned prices could rise again amid Donald Trump\u2019s trade war and stock markets have fallen on fears of a recession. According to the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}