The Latest Breaking News from Inflation

Many households still struggling and facing costly winter, even as inflation begins to ease

The path to bring inflation down has been bumpy but the latest monthly consumer price index will hopefully show signs of easing.

The head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, says the economy appears headed to a “soft landing” in which inflation returns to the Fed’s 2% target without an economic crash.

The imminent end of the agreement on price controls is fanning inflation even more, says economist Hernan Letcher

Despite inflation easing from the 9.1% peak, it remains high, wreaking havoc on a portfolio’s performance. Therefore, to combat the inflation risk which erodes the yield on fixed-rate bonds, investors could consider adding inflation-protected bond ETFs Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF (SCHP), Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund (VTIP), and iShares…

Thousands of Silicon Valley employees have been laid off over the past year, often finding out the bad news by email. Hit hard by rampant inflation and over-hiring during the Covid pandemic, the US tech giants of the San Francisco Bay Area have faced one of the worst crises in…

Paola Basso sighs as she hastily sticks price tags one on top of the other in a suburb of Buenos Aires, as the cost of goods soars after the election of libertarian outsider Javier Milei.

National insurance cut risks Bank of England being more ‘hawkish’ in battle against inflation

December S&P 500 futures (ESZ23) are up +0.03%, and December Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQZ23) are down -0.11% this morning as U.S. Treasury yields climbed after trading resumed following a holiday, while market participants geared up for U.S. business activity data.