The Consumer Price Index is the chief benchmark economists use to measure inflation. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates the CPI each month by collecting information on the price of ...

Investors and traders were bracing for Wednesday’s consumer-price index report for January to mostly reflect either little ...

The consumer price index is a weighted average collection ... by an average of about 176.589% since 1984. The CPI doesn’t measure inflation or the cost of living directly. Instead, it compiles ...

Home prices across the country are still rising at a faster clip than overall inflation, causing sticker shock for house hunters.

Tens of millions of Americans rely on Social Security benefits for a substantial portion of their retirement income. Not only ...

The consumer price index, an inflation measure, increased by 2.9% over the year that ended in December. That matched the forecast increase and was above November's year-over-year increase of 2.7%.

Forecasts for the December Consumer Price Index report show another month of ... Economists expect the core measure of inflation (which excludes volatile food and energy prices) to rise 0.2% ...

The Labor Department issues its January report on consumer prices Wednesday. Deere & Co. reports quarterly results Thursday.

The Consumer Price Index rose 2.9 percent from a year earlier, but a measure of underlying inflation was more encouraging. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics By The New York Times By Ben Casselman ...

U.S. consumer prices increased by the most in nine months in December amid higher costs for energy goods, pointing to still-elevated inflation that aligns with the Federal Reserve's projections for ...