The Consumer Price Index (CPI) regularly measures the change in the prices paid by consumers in the U.S. for a representative basket of goods and services.

Inflation surged to its highest level in nearly two years in March as the headline Consumer Price Index reached 3.3% year-over-year. On a monthly basis, consumer prices rose 0.9%, marginally lower ...

Inflation held steady in February as the headline figure for the Consumer Price Index remained at 2.4% year-over-year. Core CPI was at 2.5% year-over-year, unchanged from January and in line with the ...

Inflation is a decrease in the purchasing power of money, reflected in a general increase in the prices of goods and services ...

Survey responses from chief financial officers and other financial decisionmakers yield a new measure of inflation ...

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets ...

The Consumer Price Index jumped 3.3 percent in the year through March, a two-year high, reflecting higher costs for energy and goods affected by disruptions in the Middle East. Note: Data is ...

Inflation surged in March as consumer prices jumped amid the economic disruptions caused by the Iran war's impact on the energy market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday said that the consumer ...

The annual inflation rate held steady in February, according to data released Wednesday by the Labor Department, before the war in Iran drove energy prices higher and threatened to upend the global ...

The February Consumer Price Index provides another piece of evidence that the Trump economic program is working. Inflation is not accelerating as critics predicted. Instead, it is stabilizing at ...

Is 4% the new 2%? U.S. inflation has been above the Federal Reserve's target for so long that many observers believe ...