The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) calculates CPI inflation by gathering spending data from tens of thousands of regular consumers around the U.S. It tracks a basket of commonly purchased goods ...

The concern about consumers makes sense; tariffs will squeeze already stretched household budgets and put downward pressure ...

Poland’s consumer price index (CPI) grew 4.9% year on year in February (chart), the same expansion rate as the heavily revised – due to the annual changes in the inflation basket – gain of 4 ...

Items added and removed from the basket of goods used to calculate inflation give an insight into current fashions.

After years, possibly decades, of injustice, the most popular fruit among Britons that is not already in the Office for National Statistics’ inflation basket finally will be. And it’s not a ...

(Reuters) - Virtual reality headsets will enter Britain's inflation data next month while classified newspaper print adverts will disappear in an annual shake-up of the basket of goods and ...

Both items have made their way into the basket of goods and services used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to calculate inflation. The basket contains 752 items. The ONS collects the ...

Inflation yardsticks such as the PCE index and the Consumer Price Index measure the change in prices over time of a typical basket of goods and services. The core PCE, which excludes volatile fuel ...

Netflix subscriptions have been given a greater weighting in the basket of goods used to calculate the UK’s inflation rate, as households spend more money on streaming services and less on DVD ...