The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is used as a chief barometer of inflation. But what is it and how is it calculated? CNBC Select explains below and recommends some cards that could help put money ...

The Consumer Price Index rose 2.9 percent from a year earlier, but a measure of underlying inflation was more encouraging.

The consumer price index is a weighted average collection of the prices of common goods and services. Changes in the CPI over time are used to estimate the rate of inflation. The consumer price ...

The closely scrutinized monthly consumer-price index is out. Here are the key points: Inflation picked up in December, as gas ...

However, excluding food and energy, the core CPI annual rate was 3.2%, a notch down from the month before and slightly better ...

Excluding food and energy, core CPI gained 0.2% from a month earlier, after increasing 0.3% in each of the previous four months. The latest print slightly trailed the +0.3% consensus and the prior ...

Prices rose 0.4% percent and the year-over-year price index increased 2.9 percent. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the December Consumer Price Index on Wednesday morning. The consensus ...

Inflation ended 2024 by moving slightly higher. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 0.4% increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) on a seasonally adjusted ...

There are growing concerns about the stickiness of inflation and fears that the Federal Reserve may have to keep interest ...