Inflation jumped seven-tenths of a percentage point to 3.5% for the year ending in March in the personal consumption expenditures index, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday.

The surge in energy prices from the conflict with Iran drove much of the increase in headline inflation.

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