US inflation ticks higher on food and housing costs
Prices for many items continued to rise in the US last month, despite a sharp increase in interest rates to stamp out inflation.
But that said the report from the US Labor Department offered other signs that price increases were subsiding. Ryan Sweet, chief US economist at Oxford Economics, said this does not imply that it is "mission accomplished" for the rate-setting central bank.
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