Measured from a year earlier, prices rose 2.6% last month, slightly less than in April.
FILE - Cooper models are tended to in the service bay of a Mini dealership Nov. 3, 2022, in Highlands Ranch, Colo. On Friday, June 27, 2024, the government reports on the inflation gauge that the Federal Reserve follows most closely, a data set that will influence the Fed's decision on when to begin cutting interest rates in the coming months. WASHINGTON — A measure of prices that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve suggests that inflation pressures in the U.S.
Friday’s Commerce Department report showed that consumer prices were flat from April to May, the mildest such performance in more than four years. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, so-called core inflation rose 0.1% from April to May and 2.6% from 12 months earlier. Both figures were slight improvements on the previous month’s data.The latest figures will likely be welcomed by the Fed’s policymakers, who have said they need to feel confident that inflation is slowing sustainably toward their 2% target before they’d start cutting interest rates.
The Fed raised its benchmark rate 11 times in 2022 and 2023 in its drive to curb the worst streak of inflation in four decades. Inflation did cool substantially from its peak in 2022. Still, average prices remain far above where they were before the pandemic, a source of frustration for many Americans and a potential threat to President Joe Biden’s re-election bid. Friday’s data adds to signs, though, that inflation pressures are continuing to ease, though more slowly than they did last year.
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