Jeffry Bartash

The cost of living rose slowly in May for the third month in a row, but the rate of inflation is probably still too high for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates soon against the backdrop of ongoing trade wars.

Americans have become more careful about how much they spend because of tariffs and a slower U.S. economy.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made clear this week that he’s not ready to give in to demands by President Donald Trump to immediately cut U.S. interest rates. So what would convince him?

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Simmering trade wars have created a sort of stop-and-start economy — and the latest snapshot of retail sales in May underscores the threat to U.S. growth.

Americans have yet to feel any sting of inflation from the Trump tariffs when they go shopping. Now a new look at wholesale prices suggests the coast might be clear for a while longer.

The rate of inflation fell in the spring to the lowest level in more than four years even as high U.S. tariffs threatened to increase prices again. Is the bill from the trade wars about to come due?

The number of new jobs created in May slowed to 139,000, a sign the Trump trade wars are starting to make a dent in a resilient U.S. labor market that’s been a bedrock of the economy.

If the labor market really does begin to suffer ill effects from the trade war, a rising unemployment rate would make it quite clear.

Is the best-known U.S. inflation report becoming less accurate because of the Trump administration’s hiring freeze? The federal agency responsible for collecting inflation data says no — but it admits all is not well.