The consumer price index rose 0.5% in January and 3% from a year earlier, according to the latest data released Wednesday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was significantly stronger than ...

He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in investment capital ... produces the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The monthly publication of this number is the most widely ...

Also, while the CPI is the most widely used barometer of inflation, the Fed’s preferred gauge for its 2% target is the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, which slowed to 2.5% in June.

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in February, after rising 0.5 percent in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

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 ...