The Latest Breaking News from Inflation

Editor’s Note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs, the lede, and the latest economic releases were updated in the story.

Trump is effectively putting more money in families’ pockets with one hand, and taking a big chunk of it back with the other.

At the central bank conference in Jackson Hole on Friday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned that a new set of policy-driven shocks is reshaping the U.S. outlook, underscoring how “significantly higher tariffs” are remaking global trade while tighter immigration policy has produced an “abrupt slowdown in labor force growth.”

Food inflation at 4.2% this month, with prices increasing at fastest pace for 18 months, says British Retail Consortium

Food inflation lifted to 4.2% this month from 4% in July, according to according to the British Retail Consortium-NIQ Shop Price Monitor.

Analysis from global tax firm Ryan indicated that inflation and a new government tax change will combine to drive up business rates bills.

Fresh food inflation sped to 4.1% for the month on the back of rising dairy prices, up from 3.2% in July

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Monday closed down by -0.43%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed down by -0.77%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed down by -0.31%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU25 ) fell -0.37%, and September...

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