Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, E.J. Antoni, has suggested pausing the monthly jobs report, raising fears he could alter inflation data that's used to set cost-of-living adjustments for seniors.

Inflation ticked higher in July as investors stay alert to how much President Trump’s tariffs are starting to affect consumer costs.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer ...

The July index for bread was 241.2, up 0.4% from June and up 1.3% from a year ago. Under this heading, the CPI for white bread was 431.6, down 0.1% from June but up 0.5% from July 2024. For bread other than white, the index was 475.6, up 1.2% from June and up 2.3% from a year ago.

After July's Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed prices rose as expected, Yahoo Finance Senior Federal Reserve Reporter Jennifer Schonberger examines what the fresh data means for the Federal Reserve. The Morning Brief team also discusses Trump's nominee for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner,

The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses information gathered by BLS data collectors to calculate the CPI. Then, it publishes the CPI on a monthly (and sometimes bimonthly) basis. 11

We continue to track the latest news on grocery prices. New data from the Consumer Price Index released this week showed that many items continue to increase.

The CPI data comes on the heels of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Friday release showing that the US added 311,000 jobs in February. Friday's news release also showed the unemployment rate and ...