Is the best-known U.S. inflation report becoming less accurate because of the Trump administration's hiring freeze? The federal agency responsible for collecting inflation data says no - but it admits ...

The U.S. Labor Department's economic statistics arm said on Wednesday it was reducing the Consumer Price Index collection ...

Inflation came in cooler for February. That could give Federal Reserve officials extra confidence that price pressures were easing in the U.S. economy, just as President Trump slapped new tariffs ...

Forecasters anticipate that inflation as measured by the Fed's preferred gauge will show a mild gain in May after the Labor Department's consumer-price index showed price pressures eased last month.

M/M vs. +0.1% consensus and +0.1% prior (revised from 0.0%), according to data released by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis on Friday.