inflation
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Fed officials noted that recent price increases in the information technology and software sectors had contributed to higher inflation.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
The budgetary equation is all the more fraught because inflation is likely to push central banks to raise their benchmark rates, which underpin all interest rates, Juvyns said.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
That gauge surged in the 1970s and early 1980s, when inflation and unemployment levels were both elevated, but Kaeppel said it hasn’t been particularly useful as a stock-market indicator for decades.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
He immediately set about trying to shore up the economy by scrapping fuel subsidies that ate into the country's dollar reserves, but acute fuel shortages remain and inflation has rocketed.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
The army was mutinous; the factory workers galled; inflation ran amok.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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