{"id":74695,"date":"2026-06-10T08:03:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/us-inflation-jumped-to-4-2-in-may-the-third-consecutive-increase-since-start-of-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T08:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:03:37","slug":"us-inflation-jumped-to-4-2-in-may-the-third-consecutive-increase-since-start-of-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/us-inflation-jumped-to-4-2-in-may-the-third-consecutive-increase-since-start-of-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"US inflation jumped to 4.2% in May, the third consecutive increase since start of Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the conflict began, inflation was at 2.4%, but the closure of the strait of Hormuz has affected energy prices<\/p>\n<p>US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/inflation\">inflation<\/a> jumped to an annual rate of 4.2% in May, the third consecutive monthly increase since the start of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">Iran war<\/a> and a three-year high, as Americans continue to face steep oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>Prices have increased sharply over the past several months, rising at an annual rate of 3.3% in March before going up to 3.8% in April. In February, before the conflict began, inflation was at 2.4%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/jun\/10\/inflation-report-rate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the conflict began, inflation was at 2.4%, but the closure of the strait of Hormuz has affected energy prices US inflation jumped to an annual rate of 4.2% in May, the third consecutive monthly increase since the start of the Iran war and a three-year high, as Americans continue to face steep oil prices. &#8230; <a title=\"US inflation jumped to 4.2% in May, the third consecutive increase since start of Iran war\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/us-inflation-jumped-to-4-2-in-may-the-third-consecutive-increase-since-start-of-iran-war\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US inflation jumped to 4.2% in May, the third consecutive increase since start of Iran war\">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-74695","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\/74695","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=74695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}