Trump’s Economic Messaging Spooks CEOs. Why Are They Keeping Quiet?

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  US Inflation rose less than expected in February, but tariffs are still looming.

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  Plus, Canada and the EU impose retaliatory tariffs and some may hit the US where it hurts.

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  And Trump's economic messaging is spooking CEOs,

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  but in public, they're keeping their opinions to themselves.

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  CEOs are saying the stock market would have to fall by a lot for them to really say anything.

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  And there was still a group of CEOs in those respondents who said they they didn't feel

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  like there was any sort of room for them to speak out right now.

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  It's Wednesday, March 12th.

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  I'm Alex Osila for the Wall Street Journal.

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  This is the PM edition of what's News,

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  the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.

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  New data from the Labor Department show that consumer prices were up 2.8% in February

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  versus a year earlier.

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  That's lower than the January gain of 3% and slightly lower than economists expectations.

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  For more on these numbers, I'm joined by WSJ Economics, Justin LeHart.

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  Okay, Justin, we've been hearing so much about the economic impact of Trump's tariffs.

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  Are they affecting these numbers?

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  Not yet.

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  Most of the tariffs didn't go into effect until this month.

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  We had some new ones out today, steel and aluminum.

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