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January CPI inflation rate slows to 6.4% but monthly inflation rose by 0.5%: Live updates

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Inflation eased for the seventh straight month in January, as the annual rise in prices for goods and services slowed to 6.4%, helped by lower costs for used cars.

Compared with December, though, inflation last month rose by 0.5% from 0.1%, driven up by shelter costs.

The data comes after last month’s surprising jobs report found that employers hired 517,000 new workers, well exceeding economists’ expectations.

Americans have been struggling with high prices for over a year now, resulting in a decline in the real value of their income despite historic wage increases. High inflation has also amplified the risk of a recession.

The report “underscores the challenges faced by the Fed,” said John Leer, chief economist at Morning Consult. “Inflation may have peaked, but it’s not showing signs of rapidly returning” to the Fed’s 2% inflation target, he said. To get there, the Fed will likely have to continue hiking rates higher and longer than many anticipated.

Core CPI

Core CPI, a measure of inflation that strips away volatile food and energy prices, rose last month by 0.4% from December’s 0.3% increase. That put the annual core CPI inflation rate at 5.6%.

AUSTIN, TEXAS - FEBRUARY 08: A customer shops for eggs at a H-E-B grocery store on February 08, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Wholesale egg prices have begun declining more than 50% since December record highs according to Urner Barry data. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 775938581 ORIG FILE ID: 1464257767

AUSTIN, TEXAS – FEBRUARY 08: A customer shops for eggs at a H-E-B grocery store on February 08, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Wholesale egg prices have begun declining more than 50% since December record highs according to Urner Barry data. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 775938581 ORIG FILE ID: 1464257767

Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY, said the rise in core CPI last month isn’t “cause for concern” since the big jump in shelter prices could mean there will be smaller increases in coming months.

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Daco predicts annual inflation will fall to 2.3% by the end of the year. Core inflation, he predicts, will fall to 2.8% by t

Housing costs drove inflation higher

Rising shelter costs were the biggest contributor to rising inflation last month and yea, accounting for half of the 0.5% monthly increase in prices and 60% of the 6.4% annual inflation rate, the Labor Department said. Shelter costs rose by 0.7% last month and are up 7.9% from a year ago.

“Shelter’s contribution to inflation is likely to slow in the coming months,” said Leer.

What’s different about CPI in January?

New changes went into effect last month to adjust for shifting consumer spending patterns. By design, CPI takes into account price increases for more than 200 categories as well as the portion of the typical Americans’ budget they take up.

This is done so that the overall CPI reflects the proportional price changes consumers experience. Without taking consumers’ budgets into account the 70% increase in the price for a carton of eggs from a year ago could disproportionately skew the overarching inflation data.

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Ahead of January’s CPI release the Bureau of Labor Statistics, published new weights for certain categories, a process it undergoes every two years. Moving forward, it will update the weights every year.

With the new changes, housing accounts for 44.4% of CPI, up from 42.4%. That reflects an increase in weight for shelter to 34.4% from 33.3% and rent, also known as owners’ equivalent rent (OER), which rose to 25.4% from 24.3%.

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“At the moment, OER is still running hot so a higher weight will likely keep some upward pressure on core CPI in the near term,” said Deutsche Bank economist Jim Reid.

Meanwhile, food’s weighting fell to 13.5% from 13.9%.

Stock market

Stocks opened lower after the report’s release. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down by 200 points, or 0.6%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite made similar moves.

10-year Treasury

Yields for 10-year Treasury notes climbed after the report was released. They’re trading above 3.7%, near the highs for the month.

What January’s inflation data means for the Fed

Although the Federal Reserve doesn’t reconvene for another month, Tuesday’s CPI report combined with the latest jobs report will likely lead the Fed to raise interest rates by 25 basis points for the second time this year.

The report likely won’t give the Fed enough confidence that inflation will continue to ease on its own for it to stop raising interest rates, said Bill Adams, chief economist at Comerica Bank.

“Recent data have sent conflicting signals,” he said, noting that the latest jobs report casts the economy in a positive light as opposed to recent layoffs announcements and consumer spending and industrial production data. “The Fed will look at the balance of the signal from these data in deciding how much more to raise interest rates this year.”

Elisabeth Buchwald is a personal finance and markets correspondent for USA TODAY. You can follow her on Twitter @BuchElisabeth and sign up for our Daily Money newsletter here

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: CPI January 2023 is 6.4%, core inflation rose: Live updates

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