Core prices, which strip out volatile items like food and energy, are continuing to rise at a pretty rapid clip. The fear and the expectation really is that inflation prints are going to stay quite high and well above the feds two % target for quite some time. Military officials from russia and ukraine have been negotiating the safe passage of grain through the black sea in order to avoid a global grain crisis. Our china correspondent, eleanor alcott, writes about this project called cleo canect.