The Producer Price Index rose in April at its fastest pace in four years, government data showed, a day after consumer prices showed inflation was surging.
Category: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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CPI Shows Inflation Accelerating to 3.8% Annually in April After Weeks of War in Iran
The consumer price index increased X.X% in April from a year earlier as higher energy costs raised a range of prices for Americans.
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CPI Shows Inflation Accelerating to 3.8% Annually in April After Weeks of War in Iran
The Consumer Price Index rose 3.8% in April from a year earlier as higher energy costs replaced tariffs as the driver of higher prices for Americans.
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U.S. Inflation Surged in March as Iran War Pushed Up Prices
Soaring energy costs led to the biggest monthly increase in the Consumer Price Index since the peak of the post-pandemic inflation crisis in June 2022.
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Change in Data Sources Led to Lower Inflation Reading
A methodological change contributed to a better-than-expected inflation report, prompting questions from some economists.
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Consumer Prices Rose in January, Before Iran War Added Price Pressures
The Federal Reserve’s preferred gauge for inflation increased 2.8 percent annually and economists expect another bump in prices in the near-term.
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Consumer prices stayed subdued in February.
Consumer price data set for release Wednesday was collected before the Iran war, a conflict that has stoked fresh uncertainty about the economic outlook. .
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What to know ahead of the latest inflation report.
Consumer price data set for release Wednesday was collected before the Iran war, a conflict that has stoked fresh uncertainty about the economic outlook. .
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U.S. Economy Grew Modestly at End of 2025
Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.4 percent annual rate in the last quarter of the year, slowed by the effects of the government shutdown.
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U.S. Inflation Eased at Start of the Year
The Consumer Price Index fell in January to 2.4 percent from 2.7 percent a month
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The Hidden Number Driving U.S. Job Growth
After a year of just 181,000 new jobs, January’s 131,000 increase in the U.S. workforce was surprisingly positive. Ben Casselman, The New York Times’ chief economic correspondent, explains the numbers.
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Trump Names ‘Data Nerd’ to Lead Labor Statistics Agency
The decision to nominate Brett Matsumoto, a career government economist, came six months after the president fired the previous commissioner.