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Inflation picked up speed in December as the U.S. economy showed unexpected signs of strength at the end of 2024. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.4 percent in the final month of 2024 and ...
Data from the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a key metric from the Bureau of Labor Statistics used to measure inflation, show that prices increased 3.2 percent between February 2023 and February 2024 ...
The annualized inflation rate hit 3.5% in March, up from 3.2% the month before and 3.1% in January. The Federal Reserve’s inflation target is 2%, and for much of the last 12 months, it looked as ...
This sub-template returns the associated country's CPI for a specific year. It is used by {{Inflation/US}} for calculating the inflation rate between two given years, which in turn is used by {{}} to calculate inflated values.
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.
This template defaults to calculating the inflation of Consumer Price Index values: staples, workers' rent, small service bills (doctor's costs, train tickets). For inflating capital expenses, government expenses, or the personal wealth and expenditure of the rich, the US-GDP or UK-GDP indexes should be used, which calculate inflation based on the gross domestic product (GDP) for the United ...
There's plenty to like about the U.S. economy heading into 2024. Inflation is way down from a year ago, GDP growth keeps beating expectations and employers have added an average of 239,000 jobs a...
Annual inflation ticked up for a third straight month in December as food, energy costs rose, CPI report showed. But underlying price measure eased. Inflation rose to 5-month high in December.