The consumer price index cooled unexpectedly in November. But economists said the data should be interpreted with some ...

Economists prefer to look at the rate of change of inflation knowing that inflation almost always goes up in the long-run. Economists sometimes extract certain items like oil and food because they are ...

This week’s Chart of the Week features an excerpt from our latest Chartbook, a mammoth Yahoo Finance project in which dozens of economists and strategists send us a key chart and say why it’s ...

The consumer price index increased 2.7% in November 2024 from a year earlier, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Inflation is not accelerating, but remains persistently too high, economists ...

Inflation jumped in March as prices for consumer staples such as gasoline edged higher and those for housing remained stubbornly high, suggesting inflation may be a bit stickier than it seemed just a ...