Follow along with Investopedia's live coverage of Friday's inflation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Labor Department released the February 2026 consumer price index (CPI), which showed that inflation remained elevated ...

The consumer price index was rose 2.4% in February 2026, above policymakers' target, economists said. War in Iran complicates the picture.

A Friday the 13th economic report appeared to deliver some fortunate news: Annual inflation slowed significantly. However, certain details of the latest Consumer Price Index presented a more sobering ...

Social Security's main trust fund could be depleted a year earlier than expected, according to a projection from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released earlier this month. The CBO forecasts ...

Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said Tuesday that interest rate cuts aren't appropriate until there's more evidence that inflation is on its way down. "People express that prices are ...

Federal Reserve policymakers were mostly in agreement on the decision to leave interest rates unchanged despite two calling for cuts, though several signaled that rate hikes could be on deck if ...

A Walmart Supercenter in New Jersey. Price increases for products such as clothing and TV suggest inflation continues to weigh on consumers.Siddharth Cavale/Reuters Consumer inflation slowed more than ...

Annual inflation slowed in January, falling more than economists expected, helped by declining prices for gasoline and used vehicles. Cooler price increases overall are positive news for the economy, ...

The underlying level of inflation heated up in December as measured by a New York Federal Reserve gauge, suggesting further challenges in getting overall price pressures back to the U.S. central ...

(NEXSTAR) — Though inflation growth slowed (minimally) over the past month, consumer prices rose 2.4% in May vs. this time last year. But not everywhere in the U.S. is feeling the burn quite as much ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the much-delayed January jobs report on Feb. 11. As per the BLS, total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 130,000 in January, and the unemployment rate ...