UK inflation data for June

A one pound price label in bowls of produce on a grocery stall at East Street Market in London, UK, in spring 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.K.’s annual inflation rate hit a hotter-than-expected 3.6% in June, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday. Economists polled…

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Tariff-fueled inflation, meteor strike both rare

A top White House economic advisor on Tuesday likened the odds that President Donald Trump‘s tariffs will lead to higher prices to those of a meteorite striking earth. “Rare events happen. We get pandemics or, or meteors or whatever,” said Stephen Miran, chairman of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” But “there’s…

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