Donald Trump is pressuring the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates following a favorable inflation report, arguing that the current base rate is too high with a modest 2.3% annual CPI increase. However,

This week's inflation report will offer a first look at how President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff announcement has impacted pricing across the United States. Trump's tariff escalation, announced April 2,

Federal Reserve vice chairman Philip Jefferson said Wednesday that if the tariffs already unveiled by President Trump are sustained, it will cause "at least" a temporary increase in inflation. There are signs in the recent data of progress on inflation,

Trump has argued that inflation is down before. While it's steadily ebbed in recent years, prices are still rising faster than the Fed would like.

Inflation fell by one tenth of a percentage point to 2.3% for the year ending in April, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday in an update to the consumer price index. Forecasters had expected inflation to hold at 2.

Investors eye more trade deals, updates from President Trump’s trip to the Middle East and fresh consumer inflation data after U.S. stocks soared Monday as investors celebrated major progress on U.S.-China trade talks.

Nouriel Roubini, the Iranian-American economist known as “Dr. Doom” for predicting the 2008 financial crisis, said that President Donald Trump “blinked and chickened out” in his trade confrontation with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

American consumers, battle-scarred by the pandemic and the subsequent surge in inflation, are already changing their spending patterns and delaying some purchases due to President Donald Trump’s chaotic tariff policy and the broader economic uncertainty,