Social Security's annual COLA calculations are under scrutiny from advocacy groups, with some calling for different metrics ...
The Social Security Administration looks at year-over-year changes to the CPI-W. It does this specifically for data from the third quarter of the year (the months of July, August, and September). The ...
The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 3.6% on an annual basis in June – a larger-than-expected jump. It means inflation is still significantly higher than the Bank of England’s 2% target. The Bank ...
Since 2000, average home prices have climbed about 319 per cent, while Statistics Canada’s CPI has risen only 69 per cent ...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves' painful tax raid on businesses has pushed inflation to an 18-month high. Prices have jumped by 4.2% ...
Inflation stayed stubbornly high in September, keeping the squeeze on the buying power of household budgets. The Consumer ...
That would be the highest inflation in nearly a year and a half, which would underscore how tariffs have pushed up inflation that had been decelerating before President Donald Trump imposed ...
June CPI and PPI figures were released this week, and the buzz centers around whether Trump's tariffs have boosted inflation. There is some evidence in the numbers of tariffs boosting the prices of ...
It depends on what metric you use. The most basic overall measure of inflation is steady, or even up a little bit, depending on the time frame. But an inflation measure that excludes volatile food and ...
India’s massive free foodgrain scheme has eased the cost of living for more than half of all households, but it also raises a tricky question: Should the consumer price index be revised accordingly?
Inflation held steady in July as President Donald Trump’s sweeping import tariffs took a toll on some U.S. consumer prices. An underlying inflation measure accelerated more than expected as prices of ...