The Consumer Price Index is the chief benchmark economists use to measure inflation. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates the CPI each month by collecting information on the price of ...

The CPI measures the average cost of goods and services ... and sales tax is included in its component prices The producer price index (PPI), on the other hand, measures the cost of goods and ...

The most common measure of U.S. inflation is the Department of Labor's Consumer Price Index (CPI), which uses a representative basket of goods and services to determine trends in prices over time.

Tens of millions of Americans rely on Social Security benefits for a substantial portion of their retirement income. Not only ...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the most widely used metric for consumer inflation changes over time and utilizes data based on consumer buying habits from a broad sample set of the population.

Annual inflation ticked up for a third straight month in December as food, energy costs rose, CPI report showed. But ...

The Consumer Price Index rose 2.9 percent from a year earlier, but a measure of underlying inflation was more encouraging. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics By The New York Times By Ben Casselman ...

Forecasts for the December Consumer Price Index report show another month of ... Economists expect the core measure of inflation (which excludes volatile food and energy prices) to rise 0.2% ...