The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge moved even higher in December, driven in part by rising food and energy prices. However, a closely watched measurement of underlying inflation trends ...

Maverick Citizen has been tracking the prices of 14 basic food items that a consumer can buy with R370, the amount of the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant.

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Former USDA Economist and Cal Poly Agribusiness professor Richard Volpe joins Wealth to analyze food inflation trends. Volpe predicts continued food price increases, though at a slower pace than ...

Food inflation in December 2024 was 12.9 percent ... include freezing wages and putting a ceiling on the prices of basic commodities. However, these strategies are close to impossible to implement ...

(Image/Reuters) An improvement in rabi sowing, favourable weather conditions, and above normal monsoon rains are expected to soften food inflation sharply from the current levels in the next three ...

Inflation rose in December to its highest level since July with much of the increase driven by increasing energy and food prices. The Labor Department released the consumer price index (CPI ...

Use this inflation calculator to see how prices are changing: Inflation is the loss of purchasing power over time as prices rise. It is often expressed as a percentage and generally refers to a trend ...

Meet ALICE. It's an alternative inflation metric, designed to measure the effects on price movements on economically stressed households better than more traditional models like CPI.

Food banks across the nation are seeing a post-pandemic wave of demand for food driven by working people caught in America’s cost-of-living crunch.