Inflation is back and Motley Fool Hidden Jems Investing starts now.

Welcome to Motley Fool, Hidden Jems Investing. I'm Travis Hoym, joined today by Rachel Warren

and our substitute for Lou Whiteman, Tyler Crow. Guys, we are going to talk a lot about inflation today.

And before you think that this is going to be a boring episode, we are going to tie this

to what this means to investing, because inflation is not all that fun.

As a, I don't like it where prices go up.

I don't think anybody really does, but it really matters to what's going to happen to the

market.

So we're going to try to

piece all this together. The thing that came out earlier this week, we'll get to PPI in just a

second, but CPI came out earlier this week. That's the consumer price index. This is what you and I

feel when we go to the grocery store, we fill up our gas tank. Inflation, Rachel, was 3.8% in the month

of April that was hotter than expected and much higher than the, you know, kind of two or three

percent that the Fed would like inflation to be at. And things are really picking up. You know,

energy prices were up 6.1 percent. Vehicle maintenance is up.

Food is up. That's the stuff that we feel as consumers. So what stuck out to you in the data and kind of

how do you wrap your head around it? Well, that headline number's up a bit from 3.3% in March.

It's the highest annual rate we're seeing since May of 2023.

That's spike, though, as you noted, it's being heavily fueled by. We saw an energy index surge

of 17.9% over the last 12 months. Energy commodities spike 29.2%. Gas prices up 28.4%. Fuel oil, rising 54.

34.3%. Core inflation, right? So excluding volatile

food and energy costs also accelerated to 2.8 percent annually, hitting a monthly increase of

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