consumer prices

The emerging deflation in China draws a dark line under that economy’s many, many problems.

A key measure of inflation in the United States that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve accelerated ...

Commentary On July 12, financial markets were roiled by an early release of the Consumer Price Index that ...

Commentary Any index of prices is based on an illusion. You can say it's a necessary one. It ...

TOKYO—Japan's core consumer prices rose at the fastest pace in more than two years in March, raising worries ...

Some of the United States' biggest retailers have been accused by a nonpartisan watchdog organization of profiteering from rising inflation ...

Commentary The new inflation numbers are out. It’s 8 percent on consumer prices, or so they say. Not ...

Commentary  If you had to describe last year using only a single word, for most people the world ...

Wholesale prices in the United States rose 0.2 percent in December, with total prices skyrocketing 9.7 percent in ...

News Analysis Consumer prices jumped 7 percent in 2021, the largest annual increase in nearly four decades. After ...

As the end of the year approaches, people across China see higher prices at grocery stores, gas pumps, ...

A U.N. agency has warned that a surge in container shipping rates threatens the global economic recovery and ...

China's factory gate prices rose at the fastest pace in 26 years in October, but producers have had ...

Inflation accelerated sharply and well above forecasts in October, with U.S. consumer prices rising at their fastest over-the-year ...

Inflation levels in Spain surged to a 13-year-high in September driven by increasing energy costs, among other things, data ...

U.S. inflation showed some cooling off in July after posting large gains in prior months. Consumer prices rose at ...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve Bank and Congress have taken unprecedented steps to stabilize the economy ...

WASHINGTON—Consumer prices continue to rise at the fastest pace in decades, prompting critics to argue that the Biden ...

Earnings season is back. We take a look at how JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs performed in the ...

Consumer prices, excluding the volatile food and energy components, soared well beyond the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target ...

WASHINGTON—Worldwide supply shortages have led to price increases for raw materials in recent months, boosting production costs for ...

Prices are falling across just about every category.

U.S. consumer prices rose 2.5 percent year-over-year in January, official non-seasonally-adjusted figures show, representing the biggest such rise ...

The next time you go shopping for groceries, make sure you pay attention to these ways supermarkets can ...

But what do their expensive price tags really mean for consumers?

Deflation has become a hot topic, and for obvious reasons.