Economy News How Bad Is Inflation, Really A Fresh Look At The Economy And Cpi This Week

Excellent Inflation News (And Jobless Claims Weren't Too Bad, Either)

The Nov. inflation survey showed slower price gains from a year ago. The 12-month trend rate for overall CPI rose 2.7 percent, helped by faster monthly gains from a year ago. Read more here. Read More

New Jobs, Inflation Data Could Provide Some Guide to Where the Economy Is Headed

Data on employment and consumer prices for November will offer some recent insight into the state of the economy. Read More

The stock market faces big questions about the economy this week. How to be strategic as delayed data comes out.

'We have an economy that would arguably be in a recession without AI or data-center investments,' says one strategist Investors in the week ahead will be focused on the release of U.S. economic data ... Read More

Consumer Sentiment and Private Job Data to Provide a Fresh Look at the Economy

A new month begins with a familiar figure getting a lot of attention from economic policymakers, investors and businesses. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will speak at a panel at Stanford University on ... Read More

Tariffs have surprising effect on unemployment and inflation patterns, Fed analysis reveals

A new analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco examined the impact of tariffs on the economy based on historical examples, finding that the effect of import taxes on inflation and ... Read More

UK inflation live: UK inflation fell to 3.6% in October

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has confirmed that the Consumer Prices Index rose by 3.6% in the year to October, a fall from the three preceding months The Bank of England (BoE) had ... Read More

Trump’s flailing on the economy is worse than Biden’s

President Donald Trump’s recent commentary on the economy is drawing plenty of comparisons to then-President Joe Biden’s. In his most dismissive remarks on the topic to date, Trump ratcheted up his ... Read More

Opinion: Is inflation really so bad?

Inflation, inflation, inflation. We keep hearing how terrible it is, but is it really as bad as it seems? We know grocery and restaurant prices are up. We’ve been warned about the impact of tariffs on ... Read More