Economic data on inflation dominated a chunk of the headlines this week on Wall Street, with investors being taken on a roller-coaster ride amid mixed signals that left traders wondering whether to be ...

In this type of economy, to run the last laps on disinflation is really, really hard.’ — Brian Bethune, Boston College. And, for the most part, the strategy worked. The rat ...

Higher inflation readings left Fed officials telling lawmakers, business executives and the public that they may be waiting ...

January inflation ran hot, and the odds of Fed interest rate cuts fell as Consumer Price Index total CPI inflation ...

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.

Budget 2025: Consumer ... index had opened at 37,017.95 on Saturday ahead of the budget lower that previous close of 37,591.10 The gains were led by Blue Star that saw its share price spike ...

That may be pressuring consumers to dip into savings more, as the saving rate fell to 3.8 ... factors to a separate inflation gauge – the consumer price index – which heavily influences ...