Inflation barely budged in April as tariffs President Donald Trump implemented in the early part of the month had yet to show up in consumer prices, the Commerce Department reported Friday. The personal consumption expenditures price index, the Federal Reserve’s key inflation measure, increased just 0.1% for the month, putting the annual inflation rate at…
19 May 2025, Berlin: Apricots are sold at a greengrocer for 7.98 euros per kilogram. Grapes and papaya are also on offer. Photo by Jens Kalaene/picture alliance via Getty Images Germany’s annual inflation hit 2.1% in May approaching the European Central Bank’s 2% target but coming in slightly hotter than analyst estimates, preliminary data from…
Federal Reserve officials at their meeting earlier this month worried that tariffs could aggravate inflation and create a difficult quandary with interest rate policy, minutes released Wednesday show. The summary of the May 6-7 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee reflected ongoing misgivings about the direction of fiscal and trade policy, with officials ultimately…
A customer looks at goods on a shelf in a supermarket on January 15, 2025 in London, England. Dan Kitwood | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.K.’s annual inflation rate hit 3.5% in April, coming in above analyst expectations, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday. Economists…
Michele Bullock, governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), speaks during a news conference at the bank’s head office in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, Apr. 1, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Australia’s central bank cut its policy rate by 25 basis points to the lowest in two years as inflation concerns in…
Inflation was slightly lower than expected in April as President Donald Trump’s tariffs just began hitting the slowing U.S. economy, according to a Labor Department report Tuesday. The consumer price index, which measures the costs for a broad range of goods and services, rose a seasonally adjusted 0.2% for the month, putting the 12-month inflation…
Shoppers buy fresh vegetables, fruit, and herbs at an outdoor produce market under green-striped canopies in Regensburg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, on April 19, 2025. Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto via Getty Images Euro zone inflation was unchanged at 2.2% in April, missing expectations for a move lower, flash data from statistics agency Eurostat showed Friday. Economists polled…
Shop owners of a 70-year-old “takoyaki”, or octopus balls, restaurant chat while cooking along a street in the Taito Ward area of Tokyo on February 21, 2025. Richard A. Brooks | Afp | Getty Images Japan’s inflation grew 3.6% year on year in March, marking three straight years that the headline inflation figure is above…
A general view of people visiting the Trafalgar Tavern pub decorated with bunting and string lights on the bank of the River Thames in Greenwich on December 16, 2023 in London, United Kingdom. John Keeble | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.K.’s annual inflation rate fell to 2.6% in March, coming in below…
A laborer carries a sack filled with refined wheat flour to load it onto a supply truck at a wholesale market in Kolkata, India, on April 10, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images India’s annual inflation rate fell to a lower-than-expected 3.34% in March, the country’s Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation reported Tuesday. The…
