But there’s an auspicious element of what’s going on in the financial markets: Investors are much better equipped than they used to be to combat the erosion of their savings. The 3% gain reported ...

Two major indicators this week both showed inflation running a little hotter than expected last month. But there may still be some good news ...

Inflation ran hotter than forecasters expected in January, but a quirk of the data involving seasonal adjustment means many economists have stopped short of declaring inflation has reignited.

A rebound in U.S. inflation since the autumn has stunned investors, scuttled Federal Reserve plans to cut interest rates and ...

The consumer price index rose 3% on the year in January 2025. Economists worry that broad disinflation is over, even as ...

Meanwhile, economists polled by the Wall Street Journal expect January's annual headline CPI inflation rate and the narrower year-over-year core rate to land at 2.8% and 3.1%, respectively, down ...

Sticky inflation risk is expected to be a central talking point when Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies this ...

Inflation likely started off 2025 by continuing to overstay its welcome, with price increases still gnawing away at the buying power of household budgets.

So it may be with interest rates. The decades-long decline in Australian interest rates, from 1995 to 2019, has gone hand-in-hand with the rise in house prices, as the next chart shows.

As the March 1st deadline approaches for the state’s new homestead exemption, local schools have scheduled public hearings to explain why they plan to opt out ...

but said it had failed to bring down inflation. The rate of price increases has slowed dramatically from the highs of more than 9% seen in 2022, but remains stubbornly above the 2% target.

US inflation increased by the most in eight months in December amid a surge in consumer ... rate cut is expected before June. Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the PCE price index ...