Alicia Wallace

(CNN) — US inflation slowed to its lowest rate in more than four years, an unexpected and welcome development at a time when President Donald Trump's dramatically escalated tariffs are expected to cause prices to rise.

FILE - The New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

(CNN) — US inflation slowed to its lowest rate in more than four years, an unexpected and welcome development at a time when President Donald Trump's dramatically escalated tariffs are expected to cause prices to rise.

(CNN) — Americans tidied up their household balance sheets to start 2025, cleaning up some credit card and auto loan debt, new data showed Tuesday.

By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — US wholesale prices fell in April, according to new data released Thursday.The Producer Price Index, a closely

US wholesale prices fell in April, according to new data released Thursday.

CNN — American consumers, battle-scarred by the pandemic and the subsequent surge in inflation , are already changing their spending patterns

(CNN) — US wholesale prices sank in April, logging their biggest monthly drop since Covid stifled the economy, as tariffs put a squeeze on profit margins, according to new data released Thursday.

President Donald Trump’s decision to impose a steep tax on most goods that come into America has tested the mettle of small business owners whose companies are reliant on global trade.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says the full effects of tariffs have yet to be felt and that markets are exhibiting an “extraordinary amount of complacency” in the face of those and other risks.