Is Pfizer Raising Drug Prices Too Much in 2020?
Ahead of election years, the cost and future of health care has become one of the top debates for better than two decades now. Most politicians say that they want ...Read Full Story »
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Consumer Inflation Confirmed After Weak Wholesale Inflation
Measuring the true rate of inflation might not be as easy as it seems. After a weak wholesale inflation reading for September from the Producer Price Index (PPI), consumer inflation ...Read Full Story »
Producer Prices Refuse to Cooperate Toward the Fed’s 2% Inflation Target
The Federal Reserve has tried to get inflation closer to its 2% mandate for some time, but the current economy just isn't allowing it. Lower energy prices and even a ...Read Full Story »
Should a Month of Higher Producer Costs Be Scaring the Federal Reserve About Inflation?
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has reported that producer prices are starting to pose a problem for inflation. Or is that not the case? Prices rose on a ...Read Full Story »
Federal Reserve’s Inflation Targets Still Elusive
The Federal Reserve really wants inflation to be at or close to 2.0% per year, and it has a threshold for up to 2.5% inflation before it worries that prices ...Read Full Story »
Higher US Inflation in March Is the Envy of Europe
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released its first look at consumer inflation for the month of March. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) came it a bit hotter than ...Read Full Story »
Jerome Powell and FOMC Tell the Markets They Are Out of the Rate-Hiking Business
If you read our recent preview for the FOMC meeting, you wouldn't be too shocked that the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) didn't raise interest rates on ...Read Full Story »
Will the Fed Notice the Inflation Trends Ahead?
In the Federal Reserve's endless quest to raise interest rates in the past two years, one of the big concerns with a strong economy and with better wage growth was ...Read Full Story »
What a Monthly Price Hike Really Means for Netflix and Its Bottom Line
Inflation may be tame, and many companies may not have endless pricing power as the economic readings have come in soft in recent weeks. Just don't bother applying that to ...Read Full Story »
Producer Price Index Moves From Inflation Back to Deflation
Not that long ago, the Federal Reserve and the financial markets were worried about endless inflation ahead. Zoom forward into 2019, with lower oil prices and the Fed admitting it ...Read Full Story »
Is Wage Growth a Sign of Looming Inflation?
Last Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that real (inflation-adjusted) average hourly earnings in the United States rose by 1.2% year over year in December. That may not ...Read Full Story »
Consumer Prices Look More Tame Into Year-End as Oil and Energy Prices Fall
After a somewhat muted Producer Price Index report for November, the U.S. Department of Labor has released its November reading on the Consumer Price Index. This is inflation at the ...Read Full Story »
PPI Ticks Marginally Higher Despite Plunging Energy Prices
The U.S. Department of Labor has released its Producer Price Index for final demand for the month of November. While economists had been looking for a small drop after the ...Read Full Story »
Gasoline’s Impact on Inflation: Big October Gains, but Likely a Huge Drop in November
Wednesday's economic release calendar included a key inflation reading from the U.S. Department of Labor. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the key measurement of consumer inflation, and the October ...Read Full Story »
4 Most Important Things in Business Today
Two movies helped push October box office numbers to near record levels. According to The Wall Street Journal: Two new hit movies—“Venom” and “A Star Is Born”—gave Hollywood its best-ever ...Read Full Story »
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