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they call him mister good news here's Here's Vinny Del Judi at the first word desk with our numbers.

Okay, Michael, let's start with the consumer price index. It's up.

0.4% the most since 2016.

This is an April number.

Good news because it suggests the economy could finally be picking up a little bit of

steam. Of course we saw higher energy prices so that could figure into the mix as well.

Housing starts another number pointing to good news.

Housing starts up 6.6% in April to 1.72 million.

Building permits also higher.

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