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Here's your money briefing for Friday, May 16th. I'm Julia Carpenter for the Wall Street Journal.

By all accounts, car insurance rates should have dropped by now. But with expected tariff costs

on imported cars and car parts and uncertainty about the economy, those insurance rates are staying stubbornly

steady.

Auto insurers are going to not mess around.

They're not going to take their chances.

If they see tariffs coming through and starting to meaningfully raise the cost of car parts

and repairing cars, they're going to act pretty decisively.

Wall Street Journal reporter Telestimos will join me to talk about the connection

between car insurance rates and Trump administration tariffs.

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Add car insurance rates to the list of things upended by the Trump administration's tariff

plans. At the start of 2025, analysts and executives had some good news for consumers.

They were predicting more car insurance options and lower rates to boot. But they didn't see

tariffs coming, and now rates aren't dropping like expected. Wall Street Journal reporter

Tellis Demos joins me. Tell us, take me back to beginning of this year, end of last year, what first raised the prospect of lower car insurance rates?

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