{"id":66266,"date":"2026-02-13T09:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/us-inflation-falls-to-2-4-in-january-after-trumps-tariffs-led-to-price-fluctuations\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:56:44","slug":"us-inflation-falls-to-2-4-in-january-after-trumps-tariffs-led-to-price-fluctuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/us-inflation-falls-to-2-4-in-january-after-trumps-tariffs-led-to-price-fluctuations\/","title":{"rendered":"US inflation falls to 2.4% in January after Trump\u2019s tariffs led to price fluctuations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economists predicted a slight easing of inflation, although it\u2019s unclear whether Fed will again cut interest rates<\/p>\n<p>US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/inflation\">inflation<\/a> moderated in January to 2.4%, an easing<strong> <\/strong>after Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-tariffs\">Trump\u2019s tariffs<\/a> triggered price fluctuations last year.<\/p>\n<p>Prices rose 0.2% from December to January, according to data released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday measuring the consumer price index (CPI), which measures the price of a basket of goods and services. Core CPI, which strips out the volatile food and energy industries, went up 0.3% over the month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/13\/january-inflation-tariffs-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economists predicted a slight easing of inflation, although it\u2019s unclear whether Fed will again cut interest rates US inflation moderated in January to 2.4%, an easing after Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs triggered price fluctuations last year. Prices rose 0.2% from December to January, according to data released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday &#8230; <a title=\"US inflation falls to 2.4% in January after Trump\u2019s tariffs led to price fluctuations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/us-inflation-falls-to-2-4-in-january-after-trumps-tariffs-led-to-price-fluctuations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US inflation falls to 2.4% in January after Trump\u2019s tariffs led to price fluctuations\">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-66266","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\/66266","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=66266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}