The Consumer Price Index is the most commonly used measure of inflation in the United States. The CPI for all items increased ...

Consumer spending rose by 0.2 percent in July, which was down a smidge from 0.3 percent growth a month earlier.

The Federal Reserve earlier signaled interest rate hikes unless they saw improvements to inflation.

Consumer sentiment jumped 12% in July, with improvement occurring across all demographics, income, age and political affiliation, the University of Michigan said on Friday.

Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter based in New York City. Consumer prices rose 3.4% from July 2025 and 0.1% from June and July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, matching Wall Street’s ...

Social Security beneficiaries may see a higher cost-of-living adjustment in 2027 due to rising inflation. Social Security's COLA is calculated using a subset of the consumer price index known as the ...

The annual operating cost survey and analysis posted by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) for 2025 and the first months of 2026 show an industry that last year dealt with rising ...

And analysts are watching it all very closely. Rising prices are driving higher inflation anxiety for Americans even as the labor market seems to stabilize. All of which could complicate the Fed’s ...

May PPI surged to 6.5%, but core PPI missed expectations at 4.9%, suggesting energy drove the spike rather than broad-based inflation. The Fed faces a tough choice: hike rates and risk slower growth, ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices barely increased in July as the cost of gasoline declined for a second straight month, while underlying inflation was benign, further reducing the ...