The headlines about new stock market highs are hiding the fundamental erosion in many consumer areas. While employment looks fine and inflation seems stable, consumers are making budget shifts to ...

Though August's CPI report wasn’t too far from consensus forecasts, details of the report show widespread accelerating price pressures and elevated inflation, said Scott Anderson, chief U.S. economist ...

The San Francisco Federal Reserve warns that current tariffs are "unprecedented in magnitude" compared to 40 years of trade ...

The United States announced new, higher tariff rates this year. Tariffs can affect supply chains, investment, and firms’ ...

This week's producer-price index and consumer-price index will shed some light on the state of inflation. U.S. stock-market futures swung between slight gains and losses Sunday, as investors await key ...

Investors welcomed softer-than-expected inflation data Friday, sending the three major U.S. stock indexes to record highs. The Dow industrials rose 472.51 points after the consumer-price index for ...

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All three major stock indexes were moving away from Thursday's intraday session highs in afternoon trading, as market participants assessed the likely path of inflation at a time when the Federal ...

Thursday brings one last inflation reading, before the Federal Reserve's meeting next week at which it is highly likely to resume lowering rates. The report is expected to show consumer prices rose ...

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The fact that a small group of consumers is driving growth leaves the economy more susceptible to a downturn. Higher-end ...