Inflation moved up for a second month in ... The three-month moving average of job gains rose in November to 173,000, above the rate needed to keep up with population growth.

While Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says "the underlying inflation picture is good," tariffs could change all that.

US inflation rose in November from the pace it set a month earlier — heating up for the second month in a row — as the Federal Reserve weighs how quickly to press ahead with cutting interest ...