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Inflation in the United States is now at the center of a political and pocketbook tug-of-war. The White House says prices are rising at roughly 2.5%, a figure officials present as proof that the worst ...

The consumer price index rose 2.7% in December 2025 from 12 months earlier, unchanged from November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Tariffs put some upward pressure on prices for ...

Two top Federal Reserve officials who voted against cutting U.S. interest rates this week said inflation remains too high and the central bank should have waited for more evidence that price increases ...

This is the second inflation rate release after the implementation of new CPI inflation series with base year as 2024 instead of 2012. The revamped CPI inflation formula will not ...

Ghana’s inflation rate dropped sharply to 3.3 per cent in February 2026, marking the lowest level since August 1999 and the ...

In early December 2025, the Indian rupee reached a key milestone when it surpassed Rs 90 per dollar for the first time. The rupee had been falling steadily throughout the year, as foreign investors ...

Overall inflation rose to its highest level in ten months in February, climbing to 9.13 percent from 8.58 percent in January, according to data released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics ...

According to a new analysis from Realtor.com, the number of American homeowners with mortgage rates above 6% has exceeded those with rates below 3%. In the third quarter of 2025, 21.2% of outstanding ...

PERSISTENT oil price strength could raise the likelihood of inflation readings to hit the ceiling of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) target by the second half of this year, if not earlier, ...

Tunis - The inflation rate stood at 5% in February 2026, up 0.1% compared with January 2026, according to the Consumer Price ...