Inflation cooled in March as the Federal Reserve's interest rate increases showed more impact, leading to a small headline increase in the consumer price index. Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, increased 5.6% from a year ago. The Fed is hoping that the slowdown it is trying to engineer in the labor market will not tip the economy into recession, but this is breaking news.

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