Inflation accelerated in January, rising 3% on an annual basis, indicating that the Federal Reserve's push to drive inflation down to a 2% annual rate has stalled out, at least temporarily. The Consumer Price Index was forecast to rise 2.

The price of eggs rose 15.2% from December to January on a seasonally adjusted basis and 53% from January 2024 to last month as bird flu ravages the national supply of eggs. That helped boost the CPI’s food at home annual inflation sub-index to 1.9%, its highest reading since October 2023.

Consumer prices rose by 3.0 percent annually last month, hotter than reported in December. Inflation heated up more than expected in January, as prices for groceries, housing and energy all picked up for Americans in early 2025,