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Fed’s preferred inflation gauge worsens as Iran war sends food, energy prices surging

Nypost · 🇮🇷 public Iran · · 488 words · By Reuters
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Fed’s preferred inflation gauge worsens as Iran war sends food, energy prices surging See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GoogleUS inflation increased at its fastest pace in three years in April, driven by higher energy prices amid the war with Iran, and cementing economists’ views that the Federal Reserve could hold interest rates unchanged well into…

Common ground

The personal consumption expenditures price index jumped 3.8% in the 12 months through April, the largest rise since May 2023, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis said on Thursday.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Causal Oversimplification: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 15 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “the largest rise since May 2023, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis said on Thursday”
CORROBORATED
The Guardian and other web search results explicitly state that the 3.8% rise was the largest since May 2023, attributing the data to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Communist Party of Spain (Spanish: Partido Comunista de España; PCE) is a political party in Spain that is part of the United Left coalition, which is currently also part of the electoral alliance…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fluorexetamine (3'-fluoro-2-oxo-PCE, 3-FXE) is a recreational designer drug from the arylcyclohexylamine family, with dissociative effects. It has reportedly been sold over the internet since around 2…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The PCE-842-class patrol craft escort was a United States Navy (USN) ship class of submarine chasers designed during World War II. The PCE-842-class was the only class ever designated by the USN as th…
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Claim 2: “US inflation increased at its fastest pace in three years in April”
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The claim that US inflation increased at its fastest pace in three years in April is corroborated by The Guardian and other web search results mentioning the 3.8% PCE jump as the largest rise since May 2023.
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Claim 3: “Gasoline prices have increased more than 50% since the war started at the end of February”
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The provided evidence mentions gasoline price increases in 2026 and the start of the war in February 2022, but does not provide a specific calculation or source confirming a 'more than 50%' increase from the end of February to April.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war covers the period from 24 February 2022, when Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine, to 7 April 2022, when fighting focused away from the north and to…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2022_Russian_i…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gasoline (North American English) or petrol (Commonwealth English) is a petrochemical product characterized as a transparent, yellowish and flammable liquid normally used as a fuel for spark-ignited i…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A gasoline pump or fuel dispenser is a machine at a filling station that is used to pump gasoline (petrol), diesel, or other types of liquid fuel into vehicles. Gasoline pumps are also known as bowser…
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Claim 4: “Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the PCE price index increased 3.3% year-on-year in April after rising 3.2% in March”
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Claim 5: “The PCE price index rose 0.4% month-on-month in April after shooting up 0.7% in March”
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PrimeRates explicitly confirms that headline prices rose 0.4 percent in April after a 0.7 percent jump in March.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 2-Oxo-PCE (also known as N-ethyldeschloroketamine, eticyclidone and O-PCE) is a dissociative anesthetic of the arylcyclohexylamine class that is closely related to deschloroketamine and eticyclidine, …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Communist Party of Spain (Spanish: Partido Comunista de España; PCE) is a political party in Spain that is part of the United Left coalition, which is currently also part of the electoral alliance…
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Claim 6: “Consumer spending... increased 0.5% last month after surging 1.0% in March”
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Claim 7: “PCE inflation advanced by an unrevised 3.5% in March”
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Four independent cross-references (CNBC, NYPost) confirm that PCE inflation was 3.5% in March.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Bank of America estimated that March will be around 3.1% annually for headline and 3.5% for core [PCE inflation].
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/14/wholesale-prices-rose-0point…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — inflation came in at 3.5% for the year ending in March on the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index
https://nypost.com/2026/05/10/us-news/trumps-top-economic-ad…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — headline inflation as measured by the personal consumption expenditures price index was up by 3.5% year-over-year as of March
https://nypost.com/2026/05/03/business/federal-reserve-offic…
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Claim 8: “Minutes of the Fed’s April 28-29 meeting published last week showed a growing number of policymakers open to the possibility that they may need to hike rates”
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Claim 9: “the Fed will keep its benchmark overnight interest rate in the 3.50%-3.75% range into 2027”
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Claim 10: “Trump won the 2024 presidential election”
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Multiple independent news sources (Flipboard, The Guardian, France24, EuroNews) and Wikipedia confirm Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election and his subsequent inauguration in January 2025.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential election victory
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential election victory
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Voters in Michigan’s seventh district voted for Donald Trump in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 US presidential elections
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Claim 11: “The so-called core PCE inflation gained 0.2% in a monthly basis after advancing 0.3% in March”
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Claim 12: “A Reuters/Ipsos survey last week showed Trump’s presidential approval rating fell to nearly its lowest level since he returned to the White House”
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Multiple Reuters/Ipsos poll results from 2025 and 2026 indicate Trump's approval rating falling to low levels since his return to the White House.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump's second and current tenure as the president of the United States began upon his inauguration as the 47th president on January 20, 2025. Trump, a Republican, previously served as the 45th…
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Claim 13: “The national average retail gasoline price shot up 12.3% in April, data from the US Energy Information Administration showed”
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Web search results explicitly state that data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed the national average retail gasoline price increased by 12.3% in April.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1970s energy crisis occurred when the Western world, particularly the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, faced substantial petroleum shortages as well as elevated p…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Electric energy consumption is energy consumption in the form of electrical energy. Approximately one-fifth of global energy is consumed as electricity: for residential, industrial, commercial, transp…
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Claim 14: “The personal consumption expenditures price index jumped 3.8% in the 12 months through April”
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Multiple independent sources, including The Guardian and PrimeRates, confirm the PCE price index jumped 3.8% in the 12 months through April.
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web search NEUTRAL — The personal consumption expenditures price index jumped 3.8% in the 12 months through April, the largest rise since May 2023, the commerce department’s bureau of economic analysis said. PCE inflation…
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/28/inflation-i…
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web search NEUTRAL — April PCE inflation rose to 3.8% as core held at 3.3%, cementing a June Fed hold and keeping the prime rate at 6.75%.The headline PCE price index rose 0.4 percent in April from March, the BEA reported…
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web search NEUTRAL — +2.9%. The PCE price index, released each month in the Personal Income and Outlays report, reflects changes in the prices of goods and services purchased by consumers in the United States. Quarterly a…
https://www.bea.gov/data/personal-consumption-expenditures-p…
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Claim 15: “Economists polled by Reuters had forecast PCE inflation increasing 3.8% year-on-year”
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While web search results mention Reuters polls regarding CPI and general inflation, none of the provided evidence explicitly confirms that economists polled by Reuters forecast exactly 3.8% for PCE inflation specifically.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 ... Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index rises 3.8% on year-over-year basis in April · Core PCE inflation advances 3.3% on year-over-year ...
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-pce-inflation-firmer-apr…
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web search NEUTRAL — 6 hours ago ... The Consumer Price Index likely increased 4.2% in the 12 months through May, a Reuters survey of economists predicted. That would be the ...
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web search NEUTRAL — May 12, 2026 ... Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the CPI rising 0.6%. ... Based on the CPI data, economists estimated that core PCE inflation could ...
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-consumer-prices-increase…
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