The Consumer Price Index likely rose 3.1% over the year in September, according to forecasters. That would be the highest inflation in nearly a year and a half, which would underscore how tariffs have ...

Some data on consumption, production and hiring can be estimated using private sources, but inflation remains a blind spot.

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Happily, the next CPI report will be released despite the shutdown. The federal government agency tasked with releasing the inflation report has been called back to work. In other words, when it comes ...

The ongoing government shutdown has delayed the announcement of the annual Social Security cost-of-living increase.

Yes, inflation can be tough on those living on fixed incomes, but protecting us from it too strictly could do our overall ...

Get the latest inflation data forecast, CPI insights, and expert economist analysis ahead of the key Oct. 24 release.

The central bank’s quarterly business-outlook survey and September’s consumer-price index data are slated for release next ...

The central bank confronts “no risk-free path” in balancing the risks of a sharp slowdown in the labor market and resurgent ...

Today, US economy reporter Julia Fanzeres looks at the shutdown’s impact on a key economic report. Email our editors here.

Inflation has risen in three of the last four months and is slightly higher than it was a year ago. Yet you wouldn’t know it ...