{"id":76091,"date":"2026-07-14T07:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/inflation-cools-to-3-5-in-june-in-relief-brought-by-brief-us-iran-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:55:19","slug":"inflation-cools-to-3-5-in-june-in-relief-brought-by-brief-us-iran-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/inflation-cools-to-3-5-in-june-in-relief-brought-by-brief-us-iran-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation cools to 3.5% in June in relief brought by brief US-Iran deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent strikes have sent oil prices climbing again, with average gas price per gallon up by 70 cents on last year<\/p>\n<p>Inflation cooled to an annual rate of 3.5% in June as the brief US-Iran ceasefire, which has since ended, brought energy prices down, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>The consumer price index (CPI), which measures a basket of goods and services, has been elevated since the start of the war, largely because of higher energy prices. After mostly staying under 3% since mid-2024, CPI reached a three-year high of 4.2% in May \u2013 up from 2.4% in February. Stripping out volatile energy and food prices, core inflation decreased slightly to 2.6%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/jul\/14\/june-cpi-report-inflation-cools-iran-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent strikes have sent oil prices climbing again, with average gas price per gallon up by 70 cents on last year Inflation cooled to an annual rate of 3.5% in June as the brief US-Iran ceasefire, which has since ended, brought energy prices down, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The &#8230; <a title=\"Inflation cools to 3.5% in June in relief brought by brief US-Iran deal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/inflation-cools-to-3-5-in-june-in-relief-brought-by-brief-us-iran-deal\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Inflation cools to 3.5% in June in relief brought by brief US-Iran deal\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76091","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\/76091","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=76091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}