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Barron's @barrons.com · 15/05/2025

Walmart posted strong first quarter earnings and reiterated guidance for the year. However, executives cautioned that higher import costs will inevitably result in higher consumer prices in coming months.⁠

Over an image of a Walmart truck in the desert, a headline and subhead reads: Walmart Warns Tariffs Will Bring Higher Prices | The company posted solid earnings, but executives said that financial performance for the year ahead was subject to "substantial uncertainty."

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Barron's @barrons.com · 30/04/2025

There's been a 132% increase in mentions of the word “tariffs” in the corporate earnings-calls of the past 90 days compared with the previous quarter and a 20% increase in the word “uncertainty.”

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Barron's @barrons.com · 30/04/2025

U.S. economic growth collapsed at the start of the year. Inflation-adjusted GDP declined at an annual rate of 0.3% during the first quarter—primarily driven by an enormous increase in imports, which creates a drag on GDP growth.

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Barron's @barrons.com · 07/04/2025

The stock market briefly spiked after an X account claimed that a White House official said the president was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs. A senior administration official described the 90-day pause rumor as "fake news." Follow live coverage of today's volatile trading: trib.al/SDjhakn

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Barron's @barrons.com · 28/02/2025

Inflation pressures continued to moderate in January. The year-over-year 2.5% gain in the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation was in line with economists’ expectations and was down from a 2.6% annual jump in December. The monthly reading of 0.3% was steady from December’s pace. trib.al/3bXZRpv

The Fed's preferred inflation measure fell slightly in January to 2.5% YoY, down from December's 2.6% reading.

Note: seasonally adjusted year-over-year change in Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index. Source: Commerce Department

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Barron's @barrons.com · 12/02/2025

The BLS released the January reading of the consumer price index this morning: prices rose 3% year over year. So-called core inflation, which excludes the more volatile food and energy costs, also picked up: +3.3% YoY. Follow our coverage of the day's Fed news here: www.barrons.com/livecoverage...

Overall inflation returned to 3% for the first time in seven months. (Note: year-over-year change; Source: Labor Department)

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