Trump, Inflation and tariff
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US inflation heated back up in June, rising to its highest level in four months, as price increases — including those from tariffs — packed a bigger punch. Consumer prices rose 0.3% last month,
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Inflation in June showed scattered signs of rising costs tied to the Trump tariffs, but Americans simply aren’t paying sharply higher prices because of U.S. trade wars. Here are four things we learned from the latest consumer-price index report.
Indonesia also has agreed to purchase billions in U.S. energy, agriculture products and airplanes, Trump said July 15 in a social media post.
President Donald Trump in recent days slapped tariffs as high as 50% on dozens of countries, restoring the type of aggressive trade policy that sent stocks plummeting a few months ago. The new round of levies prompted little more than a shrug on Wall Street.
U.S. inflation reached its highest level since February in June, with consumer prices rising 2.7% from a year earlier, in part because of new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.