Tariffs Have Pushed Up Inflation, And There Are More Price Hikes To Come, Economists Say

U.S. consumers are footing much of the bill for tariffs, and are likely to pick up an increasing share of the import taxes in the coming months, several separate economic analyses said this week.

What To Expect In Next Week's Inflation Report

The Consumer Price Index likely rose 3.1% over the year in September, according to forecasters. That would be the highest inflation in nearly a year and a half, which would underscore how tariffs have ...

Government shutdown delays release of critically important inflation figures

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown is delaying another major economic report, leaving policymakers at the Federal Reserve with a cloudier picture even as the economy enters a challenging phase ...

Social Security's 2026 Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Is Set to Give Retirees the Short End of the Stick, Yet Again

For retirees, few announcements have more bearing than the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) reveal in October. Though Social Security payouts are on track to do something that hasn't been ...

Here's Precisely When Social Security's Much-Anticipated 2026 Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Will Be Announced

The biggest announcement of the year is within sight, but it's likely to leave Social Security's more than 70 million ...
Morningstar

Eurozone Inflation Picks Up Pace as ECB Looks Set to Keep Rates on Hold — Update

Annual inflation accelerated in the eurozone last month, cementing expectations that the European Central Bank will leave its key interest rate unchanged for what is left of this year. Consumer prices ...

Fed’s favored inflation gauge accelerates slightly in August

The Federal Reserve’s favored inflation gauge accelerated slightly in August from a year earlier. The Commerce Department ...
Politifact

President Donald Trump says the US has ‘no inflation.’ By 2 measures, he’s wrong.

The inflation rate is not zero; it’s currently at 2.9% year over year. That’s higher than the Fed’s 2% "price stability" target. The inflation rate also has been rising for the past four months. See ...

Fed’s Hammack Says Inflation Too High, Must Be Cautious Easing

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack said she remains laser-focused on inflation and officials should be cautious about interest-rate cuts to avoid overheating the economy.
The Nation Newspaper

Declining inflation, stable naira raise hope of rates cut

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)-led Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will today begin a two-day meeting with strong possibility of reviewing its tightening policy stance and effect the first rate cut ...
AOL

Miran wanted a bigger Fed rate cut because 'I don't see any material inflation from tariffs'

New Federal Reserve governor Stephen Miran said Friday he favored a jumbo-sized interest rate cut at the Fed's meeting earlier this week because he doesn't see any inflation from tariffs and believes ...