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US producer price inflation bounced in July to its highest reading since 2022, data showed Thursday, with underlying signs ...

Producers are already seeing rising costs. The Labor Department's producer price index, a measure of inflation on wholesale ...

A leading inflation indicator surged much more than expected last month, just as the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs started to weigh on American businesses and consumers. New Producer ...

The cost of wholesale goods and services — where rising inflation tends to show up first — in July posted the biggest ...

Economic indicators this week have showed new effects of President Donald Trump's tariffs. For American consumers, there ...

If tariff-driven inflation is truly arriving, already low estimations of Trump’s handling of prices could really plunge.

The combination of the surprise revisions of the nonfarm payroll employment data, plus the mounting pressure by the Trump ...

Sticky inflation be damned. Investors expect the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point in ...

U.S. wholesale inflation surged last month, a sign that President Donald Trump's tariffs are boosting costs and higher prices ...

Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee on Friday left the door open to supporting an interest-rate cut in ...

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