The analysis shows that price increases for those goods accelerated beginning in May, a signal U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

While markets are pricing in a 90% chance of a rate cut in July, some economists believe the RBA may wait for the more ...

US trade protectionism is making the economic outlook increasingly uncertain. To assess how consumer prices may respond to ...

Statistics Canada on Tuesday updated the basket weights for the goods and services it uses to determine inflation, increasing the influence of the shelter and transportation components. The updated ...

IIP on revised base would be released from 2026-27. For CPI, 2024 has been identified as the revised base year as the item basket and the weightage of the items would be decided based on the NSO’s ...

Ayo Andrew Anthony, Head of Price Statistics at the National Bureau of Statistics says the rebasing of Nigeria’s Consumer Price Index will bring more items into the basket and compute an index ...

Experts and officials aware of the developments said this has turned out to be a peculiar issue in the compilation of the proposed new CPI inflation series. “We have to comply with UN-prescribed norms ...

At present, the base year for the CPI is 2012, which is now being revised to 2024. Weights and item basket will be derived from Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) 2022-23.

Diving deeper into core CPI contributors In addition to separating CPI inflation into these broad categories, the data page provides a more detailed breakdown of core CPI inflation, which excludes the ...

Compared to the previous CPI, the new series has made several improvements - it includes a basket of 525 items, up from 496 items; prices are now collected from 87 market centres in all 77 ...

“The Consumer Price Index in the United States averaged 124.59 points from 1950 until 2024, reaching an all-time high of 314.80 points in August of 2024 and a record low of 23.50 points in ...