{"id":51399,"date":"2024-09-11T09:15:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T13:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=51399"},"modified":"2024-09-11T09:15:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T13:15:42","slug":"inflation-stays-flat-in-august-0-2-m-m-2-5-y-y-in-latest-cpi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/inflation-stays-flat-in-august-0-2-m-m-2-5-y-y-in-latest-cpi\/51399\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation stays flat in August: 0.2% m\/m, 2.5% y\/y in latest CPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for August came in exactly as anticipated, reflecting steady inflation trends in the country.<\/p>\n<p>For the month-over-month (m\/m) figure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Current<\/strong>: 0.2%<\/li>\n<li><strong>Expected<\/strong>: 0.2%<\/li>\n<li><strong>Previous<\/strong>: 0.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Similarly, the year-over-year (y\/y) figure showed consistent alignment with expectations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Current<\/strong>: 2.5%<\/li>\n<li><strong>Expected<\/strong>: 2.5%<\/li>\n<li><strong>Previous<\/strong>: 2.9%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This data indicates inflation remained stable, with no surprises or deviation from predictions. Such stability could be a sign that inflationary pressures are easing, especially given the y\/y drop from the previous 2.9%. It will be interesting to see how this impacts future Federal Reserve decisions regarding interest rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for August came in exactly as anticipated, reflecting steady inflation trends in the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}