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It's Wednesday, February 12th. I'm Alex Oslo for the Wall Street Journal.

This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.

Thank you. stories that move the world today. Inflation rose more than economists expected in January.

The Labor Department reported today that consumer prices last month rose 3% from a year earlier.

That's up from the 2.9% increase in December. These numbers inform

the Federal Reserve's decisions on future interest rate cuts, and President Trump campaigned

on lowering prices. Tell us Demos, a writer for Hurt on the Street and co-host of WSJ's

Take on the Week podcast, joins me now. So tell us, what is behind this uptick in inflation?

Well, what's interesting about it is that, you know, inflation has been still running,

I think, hotter than many would like, but has been cooling. And one of the things that has

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