Especially in inflationary times, the Consumer Price Index is a popular talking point in the business media since it's used as a proxy for inflation and has a direct impact on the daily lives of ...

In some good news, inflation, as measured by the producer price index, declined from 3.5% to 3.2% for the year ending in ...

The Consumer Price Index was up 2.8 percent from a year earlier, after rising another 0.2 percent on a monthly basis. That was a step down from January’s surprisingly large 0.5 percent increase ...

The Consumer Price Index surged 2.8% over the prior year in February, and the month-over-month increase was 0.2% — both measures cooling from January. Yet categories like food, medical care ...

The Bureau of Labor and Statistics reported that the consumer price index (CPI) for both all-items and core increased 0.2% in February, slightly below ...

Wholesale prices were roughly flat last month, but an upward revision to the January number meant that producer inflation was steeper than previously estimated at the start of 2025. The producer-price ...

President Donald Trump has since announced sweeping tariffs on the country’s biggest trading partners, which are set to raise prices of imported goods in ...

That would be notably cooler than January, when the index rose 0.5% month over month and measured 3% year over year. A deceleration in egg prices and lower gasoline prices point to cooler energy ...