Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 3% over the prior year in January, an uptick from December's 2.9% annual gain in prices.
In the 12 months through January, the CPI increased 3.0% after advancing 2.9% in December. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the CPI gaining 0.3% and rising 2.9% year-on-year.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for January showed a 0.5% increase in prices over the past month, an acceleration from the prior reading, government data showed Tuesday. On an annual basis, CPI ...
Consumer prices overall increased 3% from a year earlier, up from 2.9% the previous month, according to the Labor Department’s consumer price index, a measure of goods and service costs across ...
Updated January 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM. 1 / 2. US consumer prices post largest gain in nine months; underlying inflation slowing. ... The consumer price index rose 0.4% last month, the largest gain ...
However, from December 1982 through December 2011, the all-items CPI-E rose at an annual average rate of 3.1 percent, compared with increases of 2.9 percent for both the CPI-U and CPI-W. [28] This suggests that the elderly have been losing purchasing power at the rate of roughly 0.2 (=3.1–2.9) percentage points per year.
Wall Street economists expect January's CPI to show headline inflation of 2.9% in January, flat from the month prior. ... Consumer Price Index, month over month, January (+0.3% expected, +0.4% ...
A CPI is a statistical estimate constructed using the prices of a sample of representative items whose prices are collected periodically. Sub-indices and sub-sub-indices can be computed for different categories and sub-categories of goods and services, which are combined to produce the overall index with weights reflecting their shares in the total of the consumer expenditures covered by the ...