{"id":424381,"date":"2026-02-13T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424381\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:07:08","slug":"inflation-eases-in-us-as-prices-for-used-cars-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424381\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation eases in US as prices for used cars fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prices for personal services, such as dry cleaning and haircuts, rose 1.6% from December to January, and were up nearly 7% from a year ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">January was also marked by jumps in prices for cigarettes, airfares and music streaming subscriptions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But for many items, price inflation was more moderate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rents rose 0.2% from December to January, cooling from a 0.4% pace in the previous month. Prices for used cars and trucks dropped 1.8%, while energy prices slipped 1.5% over the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Price rises also slowed for key grocery staples. Steak prices, for example, dropped more than 2% from December to January, though they are up nearly 13% from a year ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, the cost of eggs fell more than 34% from January 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prices for personal services, such as dry cleaning and haircuts, rose 1.6% from December to January, and were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-424381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}