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 Labor ...

Furloughed federal workers are being recalled to issue the monthly inflation report that was due out next week.

The move to link liabilities of pension schemes to the consumer price index, rather than the retail price index, has recently become a topic for debate. RPI is typically higher than CPI and as a ...

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 headline CPI figure rose to 2.9% year-over-year, up from 2.7% in July and in line with expectations. This is the highest level since January and marks the fourth consecutive month inflation has ...