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 closely scrutinized monthly consumer-price index is due this morning. Here are the key points: Economists expect the CPI increased 2.9% from a year earlier, the same rate seen in December. An ...

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 ...

Headline inflation was 2.9% in December, according to year-over-year changes in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ consumer price index, the most commonly cited measure of inflation, while the ...

Another month, another expected miss for inflation as it relates to the Fed’s goal, with concerns aplenty about what happens from here.

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%.