U.S. inflation hits 3-year high, highlighting affordability challenge for Americans - BNN Bloomberg
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WASHINGTON — Rising gas prices pushed U.S. inflation to its highest level in three years last month, a headache for the U.S. Federal Reserve and a potential political challenge for the Trump administration as midterm elections near.
Consumer prices rose 4.2 per cent in May from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Wednesday, up from 3.8 per cent in April and the third straight increase. On a monthly basis, prices rose 0.5 per cent last month, after big gains of 0.6 per cent in April and 0.9 per cent in March.
Outside energy costs, price increases were not as dramatic, a sign that inflat…
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