The $100 you just spent at the grocery store bought 4% less than it did one year ago. Why is that? The consumer price index (CPI) helps answer this question, as it measures inflation, the economic ...

While we often speak of measurements of inflation (such as “inflation went up by three percent”), in reality, one cannot ...

The consumer price index is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.

OTTAWA-The pending review of the Bank of Canada's inflation-targeting framework is likely to focus on whether officials are measuring inflation properly and whether the 2% target remains ...

The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) recently updated the National Consumer Price Index (CPI) used to calculate headline inflation in Nepal. This update involved rebasing the CPI from 2014-15 to 2023-24 ...