{"id":237299,"date":"2025-02-12T13:59:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/us-inflation-unexpectedly-increases\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T13:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:59:05","slug":"us-inflation-unexpectedly-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/us-inflation-unexpectedly-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"US inflation unexpectedly increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/87dd\/live\/b3beb5d0-e945-11ef-b49f-f7f1f1807303.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"US inflation unexpectedly increases\" title=\"US inflation unexpectedly increases\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">US inflation increased by more than expected last month, pushing up the cost of living for Americans. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Inflation rose to 3% in January, its highest rate for six months, and above the 2.9% expected by economists.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Price rises for food and energy both helped drive up the overall rate of price increases. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The rise comes weeks after the US central bank <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c78w1x7lwd1o\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">decided to hold interest rates<!-- --><\/a>, saying there was significant uncertainty about where the economy might be headed.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c3d57zm9m0po\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US inflation increased by more than expected last month, pushing up the cost of living for Americans. Inflation rose to 3% in January, its highest rate for six months, and above the 2.9% expected by economists. Price rises for food and energy both helped drive up the overall rate of price increases. The rise comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/87dd\/live\/b3beb5d0-e945-11ef-b49f-f7f1f1807303.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[7993,2955,41266],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237301,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237299\/revisions\/237301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}