Inflation Holds Steady in December at 2.7%
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:34.5 | Here's your midday brief for Tuesday, January 13th. I'm Pierre Bienname for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.6 | Prices for goods and services rose 2.7% from a year ago in December. That's the same rate as a month earlier. |
| 0:47.5 | The Labor Department's Consumer Price Index report out today shows that costs for groceries, |
| 0:52.2 | housing, and medical care climbed while gas and used car prices |
| 0:55.9 | fell. The report shows the impact of tariffs is still relatively muted, and it offers a measure of |
| 1:01.7 | relief to Federal Reserve officials who lowered rates last month. J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Diamond |
| 1:08.2 | is warning that political interference with the Federal Reserve would backfire and drive interest rates higher. |
| 1:14.1 | Diamond defended the central bank's independence following news over the weekend that the Justice Department is |
| 1:19.3 | investigating Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Diamond also said he didn't think the Fed was infallible and that it had made |
| 1:25.3 | mistakes. The executive was speaking with reporters |
| 1:28.0 | today after J.P. Morgan's fourth quarter earnings results. The bank's profit fell 7% to $13 billion, |
| 1:34.3 | dragged down by a $2.2 billion charge from its deal to take over the Apple Credit Card program, |
| 1:40.1 | and there was a surprising slip in fees from investment banking. As for the U.S. economy, |
| 1:44.8 | Diamond says it remains resilient. And South Korean prosecutors are seeking the death penalty |
| 1:50.8 | for former President Yun Sukyal on charges of insurrection. The request follows Yun's brief |
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