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 ...

The CPI is used as a measure of inflation for policymakers, financial markets, businesses, and consumers. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the monthly change in prices paid by U.S. consumers.

The year-over-year increase was 3%. The consumer price index, or CPI, measures the change in average prices paid by consumers for a set of goods and services that represent regular expenses ...

The Consumer Price Index “is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services,” according to the Bureau of ...

What is the Consumer Price Index? The CPI measures the average change in prices that urban consumers pay for "a market basket" of goods and services over a specified period. This market basket ...

The PPI is different from the consumer price index (CPI), which measures the changes in the price of goods and services paid by consumers. The Producer Price Index measures the change in the ...

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers increased 0.5% on a seasonally adjusted basis in January, after rising 0.4% ...

Why is that? The consumer price index (CPI) helps answer this question, as it measures inflation, the economic phenomenon that slowly erodes the purchasing power of your hard-earned dollars.

WSJ’s Gwynn Guilford explains how the consumer-price index works and what it can tell you about inflation. Illustration: Jacob Reynolds Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questio ...