Consumer prices rose 0.4% last month after increasing 0.2% in July, the largest increase in seven months. The Consumer Price Index, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is a common measure of ...

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 ...

January’s consumer price index report, released Tuesday, was a bit of a mixed bag. Prices were up 6.4% since the same time last year, making January the seventh straight month of cooling ...

As the U.S. economy began recovering from coronavirus-related shortages and shutdowns, consumer prices surged faster than they had in more than four decades. Many Americans currently see inflation as ...