Headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.4% month over month (m/m) in March, surpassing consensus expectations for a third straight month. Energy prices rose 1.1%, reflecting a 1.7% increase in gasoline prices, and food prices saw a mild rebound of 0.1%. Partly due to unfavorable ba...
The median estimate (year-over-year, not seasonally adjusted) for the consumer price index (CPI) for the month of March 2024 is 3.4%. If 3.4% is the actual year-over-year increase in the CPI, it will mark the highest year-over-year increase since December 2023 (also 3.4%). Last...
A consumer shops at a supermarket in Anshun, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 11, 2023. China's consumer prices registered a mild growth in March, in sharp contrast to the persistent global inflation, official data showed. The country's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of ...
In March 2023, the US consumer price index (CPI) increased by 5% year on year, falling to the lowest level in nearly two years, and the inflation situation continues to ease. In March, the successive failures of two American banks triggered banking turmoil. However, the Federal Reserve chose...
Let’s do some analysis of theConsumer Price Index, the best-known measure of inflation. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) divides all expenditures into eight categories and assigns a relative size to each. The pie chart below illustrates the components of the Consumer Price Index for Urban...
The Department of Regional Planningapplication filing feesfor zoning, environmental, and subdivision permits were increased effective March 1, 2023. The fee increase is based on the Consumer Price Index increase of 4.9% for calendar year 2022. Projects with an affordable housing set-aside may qualify...
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 0.4 percent in March on a seasonally adjusted basis, the same increase as in February, it said. The index for shelter rose in March, as did the index for gasoline. Combined, these two indexes contributed over half of the monthly increase in the ind...
The consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.7 percent in March from a year earlier, down from 1 percent growth in February, hitting the slowest pace since September 2021, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). "Production and life continued to recover with sufficient supplies in ...
Stocks rose on Wednesday, boosted by a softer-than-expectedFebruary consumer price index reading. TheDow Jones Industrial Averageadded 200 points, or 0.5%. TheS&P 500rose 1% and theNasdaq Compositegained 1.8%. — Lisa Kailai Han Wed, Mar 12 20259:03 AM EDT ...
Consumer Price Index(CPI)-based inflation rate was 6.52% in January 2023 and 6.07% in February 2022. Rate of inflation for the food basket was 5.95% in February 2023. Retail inflation has stayed above the RBI's upper tolerance range of 6% since January 2022, with the exception of November...