Consumer prices unexpectedly declined from a month earlier, while a fall in gasoline prices pushed the energy index lower.

However, the rise in inflation in late 2024 and early 2025, and the increased economic uncertainty that started early this year, have raised some questions. At the Fed's most recent meeting ...

INFLATION may have eased to 1.8 percent in March, the lowest since May 2020, but economists say uncertainties, including ...

Grocery prices in particular skyrocketed in the summer of 2022. And though the rate of inflation has largely slowed down since, American shoppers are still feeling the effects. As of March, prices for ...

The Consumer Price Index in March rose 2.4% on an annual basis, showing progress in the Federal Reserve's battle to bring down inflation to a 2% rate. The CPI was forecast to rise 2.6% last month ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated that tariffs “are highly likely to generate at least a temporary rise in ...

The outlook for inflation is increasing in the minds of both consumers and Federal Reserve bankers after President Donald ...

Still, expect some prices to rise — at least in the near term.

The Fed eventually mounted the most aggressive campaign to bring inflation down since the 1970s. The new admission from Powell this week sparked questions about whether the central bank will make ...

WSJ’s Gunjan Banerji fields subscriber questions about stock market volatility ... a welcome development for inflation-weary families but one that economists said is likely to be short-lived ...