Typically expressed as a percentage that indicates a year-over-year rate of growth, the inflation rate gives you a quick and ready measure of the changing purchasing power of consumers and businesses.

In this framework, a central bank estimates and makes public a projected, or “target,” inflation rate and then attempts to steer actual ... which monetary policy instruments are adjusted (in line with ...

U.S. consumer prices increased moderately in February as higher shelter costs were partially offset by cheaper airline fares, ...

A line chart comparing inflation metrics over the past five years. Traders of U.S. interest rate futures saw just over a 62% chance of the Fed resuming its rate cuts at its meeting in June ...