Broken down by category, some of the sectors most impacted by tariffs saw a price decline from last month, including apparel and used cars and trucks.

Producer Price Index, a measure of wholesale costs, fell 0.5% in April. Margins are squeezed by tariffs and firms will likely pass costs to consumers

Core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices and is seen as a better measure of underlying inflation trends, was up 0.2% from March to April and 2.8% year over year. The monthly figure came in lower than the 0.2% gain expected by economists, while the annual increase matched forecasts.

Wholesale prices took their largest month-to-month dive in April since the height of the coronavirus pandemic amid Trump’s ongoing trade war. The producer price index (PPI), a measure of wholesale

The April index for bread was 241, up 1.6% from March and up 1.9% from a year ago. Under this heading, the CPI for white bread was 435.2, up 1.5% from March and up 1.6% from April 2024. For bread other than white, the index was 470, up 1.7% from March and up 1.9% from a year ago.

The crypto market stood at $3.4 trillion as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in April stood at 2.3% over the last 12 months, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on May 13. The Federal Reserve has set an inflation target of 2%. As per Kraken's price feed, Bitcoin was trading at $103,587 at press time.

The Producer Price Index, a closely watched measurement of wholesale inflation, showed Thursday that the prices paid to US producers dropped 0.5% in April from the month before, a much softer reading than economists expected, while inflation slowed on an annual basis to 2.4%, from 2.9% in March, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

The April consumer price index, a key gauge of U.S. inflation, came in slightly lower than economists expected at 2.3% in April, but was still higher than the Federal Reserve's 2% goal. CBS News MoneyWatch correspondent Kelly O'Grady has more.