15 hours ago - The annual inflation rate in the US likely held steady at 2.4% in February 2026, unchanged from January and remaining at its lowest level since May 2025. On a monthly basis, the CPI is estimated to have risen by 0.3%, slightly accelerating from 0.2% in January.

5 days ago - A hotter-than-expected wholesale inflation reading for February had traders contemplating the possibility that the Federal Reserve won't be lowering interest rates at all this year.

October 24, 2025 - Categories such as apparel, home furnishings, footwear and appliances all continued to see price increases last month, and a closely watched inflation index (core goods excluding autos) is up 1.3% annually, which is the highest since August 2023.

5 days ago - U.S. wholesale prices came in hotter than expected in February. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that its producer price index — which measures inflation before it hits consumers — rose 0.7% from January and 3.4% from February 2025.

August 18, 2025 - July inflation data emphasized that tariff-related price pressures are still with us, in addition to some heat in the services sector—making the road to Fed cuts a bit bumpier.

The inflation temperature is about to rise. It should be a low-grade fever, triggered by tariff impacts but mitigated by low energy prices, declines in shelter inflation and global economic sluggishness.

4 days ago - Today’s PPI (producer-facing inflation) added another data point, to what the Fed-favored “PCE price index” (consumer-facing inflation), and the GDP’s “Price Index for Gross Domestic Purchases” (inflation in the overall domestic economy facing consumers, businesses, and governments) have already been saying: Inflation is broadly accelerating.

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2 weeks ago - Not included in the CPI are the spending patterns of people living in rural nonmetropolitan areas, farming families, people in the Armed Forces, and those in institutions, such as prisons and mental hospitals. Consumer inflation for all urban consumers is measured by two indexes, namely, the ...

Core consumer inflation focuses on the underlying and persistent trends in inflation by excluding prices set by the government and the more volatile prices of products, such as food and energy, most affected by seasonal factors or temporary supply conditions.

July 28, 2025 - Whether inflation ultimately settles closer to two or three percent, it’s clear that the ultra-low inflation environment of the previous 20 years is behind us. While the worst of the recent spike may be over, it’s still too soon to declare victory.

4 days ago - What’s really more interesting to me is the 30-year, because it is knocking on the door of 5% again, rising by 4 bps on the day to close at 4.89%. If oil stays at these levels or moves higher, and inflation is indeed heading higher, then a move above 5%—perhaps even back to 5.1% or 5.2%—can’t be ruled out.

3 weeks ago - Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer for Northlight Asset Management says that, while PPI doesn’t typically get the attention that the CPI or PCE inflation readings get, the latest data was higher than expected across the board.

August 12, 2025 - Rent prices have remained hotter than most economists and Fed officials originally expected. Lags could be one reason, as leases and housing agreements take longer to roll over from the previous year. Another could simply be because homes and mortgage rates have stayed pricey, keeping more renters on the sidelines than usual. Inflation hasn’t just made the prices of key household essentials more expensive — but the costs of vacations and travel, too.

6 days ago - It did not peak until passing 7% in June 2022, with the Fed at that point scrambling to catch up with steep, rapid-fire rate hikes. Inflation as measured by the separate Consumer Price Index topped 9% that month, the fastest pace since 1981, ...

2 weeks ago - "CPI inflation for February was ... set aside the energy shock. Tariff-impacts are still hitting core goods inflation, while services inflation outside housing remains hot."...

1 day ago - The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland provides daily “nowcasts” of inflation for two popular price indexes, the price index for personal consumption expenditures (PCE) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI). These nowcasts give a sense of where inflation is today. Released each business day.

9 hours ago - In economics, hyperinflation is a very high and typically accelerating inflation. It quickly erodes the real value of the local currency, as the prices of all goods increase. This causes people to minimize their holdings in that currency as ...

September 9, 2025 - In a working paper published with the National Bureau of Economic Research, they argue that accounting for inflation, which started to surge in 2021 amid COVID-19, wages were actually lower than would have been expected on the basis of pre-pandemic ...

3 weeks ago - The hot overall inflation data in the GDP release today (3.7%) and the accelerating consumer-facing inflation in the PCE price index today (2.9% and 3.0%) indicate that inflation is rumbling throughout the economy and is bubbling to the surface at the consumer end.