Markets must grapple with both the immediate threat of higher inflation from geopolitical tensions and conflagrations, as ...

China may be closer to ending its prolonged deflationary period than financial markets currently anticipate, according to a ...

Inflation refers to the rise in prices across the economy. But inflation can take many forms, and it has complex causes. For example, stagflation, which occurred in the 1970s, combines high inflation ...

March CPI rose +0.9% MoM, the largest increase since 2022, showing that war-related surge in gasoline prices is pushing ...

July Fourth saw big crowds, congested highways and full airplanes as tens of millions of Americans celebrated not only the country’s independence but their own liberation from the pandemic. There were ...

China’s annual inflation dropped to 0.2% in January 2026, down from 0.8% in December and below the expected 0.4%. Food prices decreased by 0.7%, the first fall in three months, because of lower prices ...

President Donald Trump suggested that inflation is on the decline and might continue to decrease, but also expressed concerns about the possibility of deflation. On Monday, Trump, while speaking to ...

ANZ said it expects China’s producer price index (PPI), consumer price index (CPI) and GDP deflator to all turn positive year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, with the GDP deflator seen rising ...

Re: “Inflation slows in the Bay Area” (Page A1, March 12). Inflation is the general increase in prices for goods and services over time. The article boasts that the rate of inflation has slowed from 3 ...

Learn about purchasing power, its effect on currency value, and how inflation influences what one unit of money can buy.

Mainstream economists, not to mention most financial journalists, claim that deflation is as bad or worse than inflation. The ...