{"id":4012,"date":"2026-05-13T07:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/13\/inflation-surges-to-3-8-in-april-highest-since-may-2023-as-energy-prices-spike\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:34:15","slug":"inflation-surges-to-3-8-in-april-highest-since-may-2023-as-energy-prices-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/13\/inflation-surges-to-3-8-in-april-highest-since-may-2023-as-energy-prices-spike\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation Surges to 3.8% in April, Highest Since May 2023, as Energy Prices Spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer prices surged 3.8% annually in April, the highest level since May 2023, driven largely by a significant jump in energy costs. Core inflation also remained stubbornly above the Federal Reserve&#8217;s target, signaling persistent price pressures across the economy. The report also highlighted a decline in real wages, meaning workers&#8217; earnings are not keeping pace with inflation, increasing financial strain.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/04\/23\/consumer-prices-rose-3point8percent-annually-in-april-highest-since-may-2023.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer prices surged 3.8% annually in April, the highest level since May 2023, driven largely by a significant jump in energy costs. Core inflation also remained stubbornly above the Federal Reserve&#8217;s target, signaling persistent price pressures across the economy. The report also highlighted a decline in real wages, meaning workers&#8217; earnings are not keeping pace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108305809-1778609347611-732_0045_10.jpg?v=1778609373&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","rifnote_country-usa","rifnote_executive-kevin-warsh","rifnote_executive-stephen-miran"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108305809-1778609347611-732_0045_10.jpg?v=1778609373&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}