Deflation measures how quickly prices are declining for consumer goods and services. Prices have deflated for a range of items like physical goods, airfare, gasoline and some groceries since June 2023 ...

As the weekend comes to a close, let’s take a look at the top stories that shaped the week. From the U.S. manufacturing sector hitting an 18-month high to a warning about a potential debt crisis, here ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Deflationary pressures persisted in China, with both consumer and producer prices falling in September, official data showed on Wednesday, as a prolonged property market downturn ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Economics Minister Akira Amari said on Friday that an acceleration in consumer price inflation to a five-year high shows clear progress in the battle to escape deflation.

An irate President Trump threatened "massive tariffs" (100%) on China and threatened to pull out of the APEC meeting later ...

Both actual inflation and inflation expectations increased recently in Japan after decades of being undesirably low. An estimate based on nominal and real Japanese bond yields adjusted for liquidity ...

Inflation cooled in August and fell to its lowest level since February 2021, which was around the time the consumer price index began to climb during the pandemic era. This broad trend in the U.S.

Deflation has occurred in segments of the U.S. economy over the past year, according to the consumer price index. Some imported goods, consumer electronics and energy and food items have seen declines ...

This dynamic, known as deflation, generally doesn't occur on a broad, sustained scale in the U.S. economy: With limited exceptions, businesses are generally loath to lower prices once they've ...

Prices have declined for many consumer items over the past year, a dynamic known as deflation. Largely, that's been for physical goods — such as new cars, appliances and consumer electronics — as ...