Economists have asked the statistics ministry to make item weights public beforehand so that they can forecast the first ...

Core services, which dominate the inflation index and include many of the essentials that consumers cannot do without, rose by 4.3% annualized in August. “Core” CPI, which excludes food and energy ...

The December U.S. Consumer Price Index report, due out on Wednesday, is expected to reveal a nudge upward in the headline inflation rate, while the core remained steadfast. With recent remarks from ...

The Consumer Price Index “is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services,” according to the Bureau of Labor ...