10/10/2025 5:47:47 PM Federal government recalls workers to produce key inflation report By Cristobal de Atucha The Bureau of Labor Statistics will recall some staff during the government shutdown to ensure release of September’s consumer-price...
3/20/2025 1:00:43 PM VR headsets and pulled pork join UK inflation basket By Sarah Wolter Virtual reality headsets and pre-cooked pulled pork have joined the list of products used to measure UK inflation while newspaper adverts...
3/22/2024 6:56:08 PM Inflation tracker: at 3.2%, see the items keeping prices high By FinTech Collective The WSJ's price tracker shows year-over-year price movements for items every month. In February 2024, frozen non-carbonated juices and...
3/22/2024 2:15:12 PM The Taylor Swift effect: How vinyl records returned to U.K. inflation basket after 32 years By FinTech Collective Vinyl records will be added to the UK’s basket of goods used to calculate the rate of inflation for the first time since 1992. The...
3/22/2024 1:21:50 AM Bank of Japan ends the world's only negative rates regime By FinTech Collective The BOJ raised its short-term interest rates to 0% to 0.1% from -0.1%. The move sparked a sell-off in the yen against major currencies,...
3/22/2024 1:18:59 AM The Fed's conundrum: interest rates are both too high -- and too low By FinTech Collective The Federal Reserve is still aiming to lower interest rates later this year, and for many U.S. households and small businesses those rate...
3/22/2024 1:15:30 AM Air fryers and vinyl records added to U.K. inflation basket By FinTech Collective Vinyl records, air fryers and gluten-free bread have been added to the list of products used to measure U.K. inflation while hand...
3/21/2024 11:54:31 PM Air fryers and vinyl records added to UK inflation basket By Sarah Wolter In its annual update to the basket of goods and services used to track price growth, the Office for National Statistics added 16 new...
11/17/2023 5:25:35 PM What’s behind the market’s wild overreactions By Samantha Wulfson This week’s inflation prompted the market to do exactly as it should: bond yields fell and stock prices rose, with rate-sensitive stocks...
6/22/2023 5:09:59 PM Fraudulent COVID aid drove up U.S. house prices, report says By FinTech Collective Fraud against the Paycheck Protection Program was widespread enough to bump up real-estate prices within certain U.S. ZIP Codes,...
6/20/2023 8:28:57 PM One-percenters keep shopping at the Dollar Store By Sarah Wolter That Mercedes in the dollar-store parking lot isn’t an illusion. High-earners joined the rest of the country in flooding discount...
4/27/2022 1:00:55 PM Inflation forces budget-squeezed Americans to ask family and friends for loans By Sarah Wolter Some 25.6m people -- more than 10% of all adults -- relied on loans from those close to them to meet spending needs, according to the...
11/11/2021 8:40:11 PM Investors throw cash at any ETF with ‘inflation’ in the name By Sarah Wolter Endless demand to protect portfolios from rising prices is fueling an indiscriminate boom in one corner of the $7.2t U.S. exchange-traded...
6/4/2021 11:16:40 AM Global food prices post biggest jump in a decade By Carlos Alonso Torras The year-on-year leap in UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s monthly food price index was the largest since 2011 and signaled that...
5/14/2021 2:25:55 PM Fed’s waller says inflation jump likely temporary, urges patience By Carlos Alonso Torras Over the past week, official data have shown April job creation falling far short of economists’ forecasts, evidence of a shortage of...
9/4/2020 7:12:56 AM Why stablecoins are taking off in Argentina By Carlos Alonso Torras Stablecoin transactions in Argentina have ballooned this year. High inflation combined with government-imposed currency controls —...