The inflation rate last month was slightly lower than forecast by economists, although price increases are still higher than ...

NBC News is tracking changes in the prices of eggs, bread, ground beef, chicken and other grocery items to monitor the impact on consumers’ food bills.

Food prices rose by 0.2% in February, fueled by increases in the indexes for eggs, meats, poultry, fish and beef, according ...

While grocery inflation is well below the multi-decade highs it hit in 2022, rising prices for a relatively small group of ...

The price tracker is based on data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for food, household goods and services and Zillow for rent and home-purchase prices. Every chart notes ...

The consumer price index increased 2.7% in November 2024 from ... "We saw a bounce back in food prices," Zandi said. "Part of it is avian flu: Egg prices continue to be very strong." ...

The FAO Vegetable Oil Price Index decreased by 5.6% from the previous month, reversing a recent increase, though it remained 24.9% higher than a year ago The FAO Food Price Index, the benchmark ...

But the item with the largest monthly price jump in consumers' grocery carts, according to the Labor Department’s consumer price index ... said David Ortega, a food economics professor at ...

The Consumer Price Index rose 3.0 percent from a year earlier as food and energy prices picked up. A chart showing inflation, which was up 3 percent for a year through January, and inflation that ...