The Latest Breaking News from Inflation

What you need to know… The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) Friday closed down -0.16%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed down -0.03%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed down -0.37%. Stock indexes Friday gave up early gains and closed...

The dollar index (DXY00 ) on Friday rose by +0.63% and posted a 1-1/2 week high. An increase in long-term U.S. inflation expectations boosted T-note yields Friday and strengthened the dollar’s interest rate differentials. Also, comments from Fed Governor Bowman were hawkish for Fed policy and bullish for the dollar...

Inflation is currently running at 7.2% according to the latest figures from the CSO for April

Inflation is finally cooling in the US. But has the Federal Reserve really reached the end of its rate hikes? And what does that mean for other central banks? We speak to Susannah Streeter, Head of Money and Markets at Hargreaves Lansdown. She says the Federal Reserve is widely expected…

Just a small percentage rise can have a lasting knock-on effect, say experts

The Bank of England has hiked the interest rate to 4.5%

Argentina's annual inflation rate soared to 109% in April, the country's statistics agency said on Friday, smashing past analyst forecasts and stoking anger among hard-hit consumers who are increasingly having to skimp and save to get by.

Turkey’s 2023 election is one of the most significant in its hundred-year history. After years of currency crashes, vanishing foreign currency reserves and surging inflation, rethinking economic policy will be a top priority for whoever is eventually sworn in. At the time of writing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is claiming…

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has accused the Albanese government of delivering an inflationary budget, but not all experts think so.