Eurozone Price Pressures Edged Higher to End the Year Inflation in the countries that use the euro rose to 2.9 percent in December, but the underlying rate continued a downward trend.
Red Sea Attacks Menace Energy Tankers but Don’t Stop Them Some oil tanker traffic continues to go through the Suez Canal, while plentiful global reserves keep crude prices steady.
Carrefour Drops PepsiCo Products in France Over High Prices Carrefour, a supermarket chain, said the maker of Pepsi, Lay’s and 7-Up was keeping its food “unacceptably” expensive despite falling inflation.
Want to Understand 2024? Look at 1948. Americans were angry with Truman because of high prices in the aftermath of World War II, even as other economic signals looked promising.