The Consumer Price Index (CPI) regularly measures the change in the prices paid by consumers in the U.S. for a representative basket of goods and services.

A basket of goods is defined as a constant set of consumer products and services valued on an annual basis and used to calculate the consumer price index.

The inflation rate is inching higher, with Wall Street expecting tariffs to increase prices throughout the remainder of 2025.

The consumer price index, or the CPI, and the personal consumption expenditures price index, or the PCE, both measure the cost of a basket of goods, but the baskets aren’t the same. Housing is a ...

Core CPI, which strips out the more volatile categories like food and gasoline, measured 6.3% in August, up from 6.2% in July. The month-on-month gain of 0.6% was double what economists had expected.

The CPI measures price changes for a basket of commonly purchased goods and services. And in November, the cost of that grocery store basket was a bit more painful than it has been for a while.

For example, the consumer price index (CPI), a common measure of inflation, ... The U.S. CPI basket includes a 36.1% weighting for shelter costs derived mostly from rents and owners' equivalents.

Inflation heated back up again in November, but it likely wasn’t bad enough to keep the Federal Reserve from cutting rates next week. Consumer prices were up 2.7% for the 12 months ended in ...