Yeah well these news publications are starting to blatantly insult everyone’s intelligence now. If it was really unexpected, there wouldn’t be a bunch of comments here saying “Unexpected? Really?”

And the dozens of people who made that comment didn’t read so much as the first part of the first sentence of the article.

US inflation increased by more than expected last month

It’s not the inflation that was unexpected, it’s the amount. You can’t get your news from headlines, people.