 I'm Chad Robinson with Your Money Now. A measure of prices that's watched by the Federal Reserve seems to show inflation pressures in the U.S. economy are continuing to ease. Today's Commerce Department report shows that consumer prices were flat from April to May, producing the mildest performance in more than four years. Comparing the same period last year, prices rose 2.6% last month. So-called core inflation rose 0.1% from April to May.