After some turn-of-the-year firmness, inflation has more or less continued to edge lower in line with the Fed's projections through last year Core services ex-housing was flat in April. Housing was +0.35% in April. Core goods prices, which fell -0.27% in March, rose +0.27% in April. If not for the broad imposition of tariffs that threaten to set back this improvement, this report would be getting high fives in the Martin building.