The consumer price index cooled unexpectedly in November. But economists said the data should be interpreted with some ...

Economists prefer to look at the rate of change of inflation knowing that inflation almost always goes up in the long-run. Economists sometimes extract certain items like oil and food because they are ...

Inflation continued to retreat in July, aided by easing price pressures for consumer staples like food and energy and physical goods like new and used cars. The CPI gauges how fast prices are changing ...

Inflation fell in September as lower gasoline prices combined with other waning price pressures in areas such as housing to bring relief to consumers' wallets, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor ...

The US economy grew 3.1% last year, trouncing widespread calls for a recession and exceeding my relatively sober expectation for 2% growth. The correct way to view the interplay between growth and ...

Inflation fell slightly in April as easing price pressures for groceries and other areas of consumer balance sheets were partially offset by higher gasoline prices and stubbornly high housing costs.

Inflation ticked up in December on the back of higher energy and food prices, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. The bureau's consumer price index, an inflation gauge, rose 2.9% during ...

Inflation fell further in June as lower gasoline prices combined with other easing price pressures to bring relief for consumers' wallets. The consumer price index, a key inflation gauge, rose 3% in ...

This week’s Chart of the Week features an excerpt from our latest Chartbook, a mammoth Yahoo Finance project in which dozens of economists and strategists send us a key chart and say why it’s ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ...

John Hawkins was formerly a senior economic analyst and forecaster in the Reserve Bank and Australian Treasury. Australia’s inflation rate has fallen for the fifth successive quarter, and it’s now ...

John Hawkins is a former economic analyst and forecaster in the Reserve Bank and Australian Treasury. Today’s figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show inflation fell in the September ...