The consumer price index rose 2.4% on an annual basis in May 2025, up from 2.3% in April, according to the Bureau of Labor ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday said economic data points to inflation "continuing to come down on a bumpy path." "One or two really good data months or bad data months aren't ...

Based on what I see, prices eased in August… As you’ll notice in the above chart, my proprietary inflation gauge ... possibly by as much as 50 basis points. The change will drive the ...

here's what inflation would have done to the purchasing power of those points by now: As the chart shows, rewards that had $100 worth of purchasing power in 2019 are only worth $81.52 today.

Grocery prices were a sticking point in May, though, economists said. Inflation for food at home rose by 0.3% for the month, after having deflated 0.4% the prior month. Food prices give "a little ...

The Fed also uses another inflation measure, the personal consumption expenditures price index. CPI readings tend to run about 0.2 to 0.3 percentage points higher than the PCE, Seydl said.