Inflation rate is 2.4%; Core inflation, excluding food & energy, is 2.5%. Regional inflation varies, with the Northeast at 2.7% and the South at 1.8%. Inflation is one factor the Federal Reserve ...

The numbers: The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge showed that prices rose close to 3% in 2025, leaving the central bank with more work to do to get cost-of-living increases back down to ...

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The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its personal consumption expenditures price index data for September earlier today. Here is the report, at a glance: Core YoY: 2.8% increase, in line with ...

Key inflation metrics tracked by the Federal Reserve accelerated at the end of last year, underscoring why many Fed officials have turned cautious about supporting further interest-rate cuts. The ...

Minutes of the Federal Reserve’s first meeting of the year showed that several officials wanted the central bank to tell the markets there was a chance its next move might be to raise interest rates.

Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson has blasted the Labor Party for pouring “debt petrol” on to the “inflation fire”. “Eventually reality has bit the very thin excuses that the government has been running,” ...

President Trump says that he has brought down inflation, but families are still struggling to pay bills and plan for the future. By Audra D. S. Burch For 13 years, Maribel McBeath has cleaned plane ...

Trends on jobs, inflation and crime that began before Donald Trump retook office continued, largely unabated, in his first year back. By Ashley Cai and Linda Qiu In the days before his State of the ...

LONDON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - British inflation fell to its lowest since March last year, according to official data that added to expectations of an interest rate cut soon by the Bank of England, even ...

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