Segments From This Episode

• There is some good news if you dig into the numbers, but overall, inflation progress has stalled

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  The latest PCE price index shows prices rose three-tenths of 1% in December, the biggest monthly increase since April. This rise is partly due to higher energy costs. However, excluding energy and food, annual inflation has remained around 2.7 or 2.8% since July. Christopher Low, chief economist at FHN Financial, joins us to discuss.

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• U.S. DOJ files lawsuit to block $14 billion HPE-Juniper merger

  by Nova Safo

  The Justice Department, under the new Trump administration, has filed its first antitrust case. And it’s a case inherited from the Biden administration, concerning the basic digital infrastructure for businesses — more specifically, their wireless internet networks.

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• Amid Trump’s calls to “drill, baby, drill,” OPEC+ meets Monday to decide how it will respond

  by Caleigh Wells

  

  And the oil cartel may well decide to just wait and see what happens in the U.S.

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