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PublishedSeptember 26, 2024
Diners skipping restaurants, making more meals at home as inflation trend inverts
Inflation has been easing broadly for more than a year now, and it's been cooling faster for grocery items since the middle of the year.
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2024
U.S. inflation reaches 3-year low as Federal Reserve prepares to cut interest rates
A key reason for last month's drop in overall inflation was the third drop in gas prices in the past four months.
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PublishedAugust 27, 2024
Harris campaign releases new ad to highlight plans to build 3 million homes and reduce inflation
Her proposal includes the government providing assistance to first-time buyers, tax breaks for homebuilders, and expanding existing incentives for companies that construct rental homes.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2024
‘Time has come’ for Fed to soon begin reducing interest rates, Powell says
The Fed is widely expected to announce a modest quarter-point cut in its benchmark rate when it meets in mid-September.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2024
Markets and households eagerly await Powell’s hints about Fed rate cut
Jerome Powell's Jackson Hole speech will offer the clearest clue yet about what the Federal Reserve plans to do with interest rates at its September meeting.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2024
Inflation is falling, but the next president could bring it back
Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are pushing economic ideas that – whatever their merits – could raise prices on many goods and services, some economists said.
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PublishedAugust 14, 2024
Annual U.S. inflation falls to 3-year low, clearing way for Fed to cut rates
The government said nearly all of July's inflation reflected higher rental prices and other housing costs, a trend that, according to real-time data, is easing.
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PublishedAugust 12, 2024
Americans’ refusal to keep paying higher prices may deal final blow to inflation
The reluctance of consumers to keep paying more has forced companies to slow their price increases – or even to cut them. The result is a cooling of inflation pressures.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2024
Food companies feel the pain as consumers reject higher prices
Faced with revenue and unit sales declines in recent months, snack giants PepsiCo and Conagra confront the reality of “value-seeking behavior.”
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PublishedJuly 9, 2024
Fed’s Powell highlights slowing job market in signal that rate cuts may be nearing
Chair Jerome Powell's written testimony Tuesday marked a shift in emphasis away from the Fed’s single-minded fight against inflation that suggests it's moving closer to cutting interest rates.
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