{"id":89334,"date":"2024-09-12T00:14:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T04:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=89334"},"modified":"2024-09-11T23:48:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T03:48:56","slug":"consumer-prices-rose-0-2-in-august-as-annual-inflation-rate-hits-lowest-since-early-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2024\/consumer-prices-rose-0-2-in-august-as-annual-inflation-rate-hits-lowest-since-early-2021.html","title":{"rendered":"Consumer prices rose 0.2% in August as annual inflation rate hits lowest since early 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Inflation in August declined to its lowest level since February 2021, according to a Labor Department report Wednesday that also showed a key measure higher than expected, setting the stage for an expected quarter percentage point rate cut from the Federal Reserve. The\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\">consumer price index<\/a>, a broad measure of goods and services costs across the U.S. economy, increased 0.2% for the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/09\/11\/cpi-inflation-report-august-2024-.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Inflation in August declined to its lowest level since February 2021, according to a Labor Department report Wednesday that also showed a key measure higher than expected, setting the stage for an expected quarter percentage point rate cut from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89335,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89334\/revisions\/89335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}