2023-05-10 13:30:45
Inflation slowed slightly in April in the United States to reach 4.9%, falling to its lowest level since April 2021, but still remains far too high. Housing, used cars and gasoline at the pump are still experiencing strong increases.
Consumer prices rose 4.9% year on year in April, once morest +5.0% in March, according to the CPI index published on Wednesday by the Labor Department, and on which pensions are indexed. But over just one month, inflation accelerated once more, to 0.4% once morest 0.1% in March.
Analysts were expecting values of +5.0% over one year and +0.4% over one month, according to MarketWatch consensus.
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