Inflation slows with headline CPI at +2.3% Y/Y, lowest since Feb 2021. Click for more on the data and what it may mean for the markets.

Consumer prices were up 2.3% in April from a year earlier, the Labor Department reported Tuesday, cooler than March’s gain of 2.4%. That was below the 2.4% that economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected.

Inflation eased to a four-year low in April as the nascent impact of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs were offset by their cost-dampening effects in a slowing economy. Overall consumer prices increased 2.