The Consumer Price Index report for January is expected to show broadly unchanged annual inflation according to nowcasts.

The National Bureau of Statistics has disclosed that its rebased Consumer Price Index will better reflect current price ...

Measuring key aspects of a nation’s economy is important, but the metrics used are often misunderstood by many. Quantifying ...

The rebased CPI is expected to improve the accuracy of economic data, offering item weights that reflect modern household spending habits and providing essential input for economic planning.

US CPI rose 0.4% MoM and 2.9% YoY. The market reacted bullishly, with bond yields dropping and equity futures rising. See ...

[CPI(M)] State secretary M.V. Govindan throwing his weight behind the CM. Inaugurating the CPI(M) Kottayam district conference delegates’ meet at Pampady on Friday, Mr. Govindan argued that ...

Celebrating football’s biggest game can bring big appetites. Buying Super Bowl fixings this year will cost about the same as last year, but the prices of individual products may seesaw, according to a ...

The categories are then averaged according to their respective weights. The resulting number can then be compared to those of previous months, years, or decades. The CPI was originally created ...

Every year, the Social Security Administration, or SSA, examines inflation data and adjusts Social Security benefits ...

U.S. consumer prices rose in December by less than forecast, a welcome stepdown that helped arrest a deep selloff in bond ...

The most important item in the CPI inflation is the Owners' equivalent rent of residences OER, which weights 27.1% in the overall price index. In fact, service inflation has been the sticky part ...

The volatile ‘food and beverages’ component in the present CPI, for instance, has a weight of 46.8%. But this, as the HCES shows, possibly results in effective inflation being over-estimated ...