Purchasing power refers to the amount of goods and services a person or entity can buy with a given amount of money. It ...

Freddie Mac’s benchmark rate survey shows the rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage increased to 6.65% for the week ending ...

Excluding volatile food and energy prices, so-called core wholesale prices fell 0.1% last month from January, first drop ...

Stripping out more volatile food and energy prices, the core CPI also moderated, coming in at 0.2 percent in February. That ...

“Today’s inflation report might appear to further open the door for future Fed easing, but lower airline fares, a volatile component, largely drove the better-than-expected results,” said Ronald ...

Inflation eased last month, but the data may offer less comfort to businesses, consumers and the Fed than it otherwise would ...

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

Inflation came in cooler for February. That could give Federal Reserve officials extra confidence that price pressures were ...

Purchasing power parity (PPP) is an economic concept that compares the relative value of currencies by examining the cost of ...

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While all governments battle to find funds for better healthcare, schools, roads and other services, African countries are disproportionately groaning under an ever-increasing debt burden. For years ...

Jobs. Prices. GDP. The federal government keeps close tabs on these and other economic indicators. And decision-makers depend on those numbers to be reliable. But that could be a challenge, given ...