Inflation versus deflation? Bull market versus bear market? The economy is confusing enough for the average person without all the jargon. While most Americans just want to know how much a carton of ...

Inflation has been cooling for several months, but markets and the economy would suffer if sharp deflation sets in. Deflation can eat away at company earnings and margins, which would drive stock ...

The mainstream financial media never talks about the fact that inflation – which is the big enemy today of the bond market – is still better than deflation. Deflation is a truly ugly condition, and ...

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 brought an increase in overall inflation that hadn’t been seen in decades — higher demand and lower supply (combined with supply chain issues) all ...

Last year saw big crowds, congested highways and full airplanes as tens of millions of Americans celebrated their own liberation from the pandemic. There were worries that creeping inflation would ...

The October-November readings for both the Consumer Price Index and the Everyday Price Index should be viewed as provisional ...

After persistent inflation since 2021, falling prices in the U.S. are causing some to worry that the opposite will occur: Deflation, or declining prices. "The Fed's extreme policy actions of the COVID ...

As sky-high inflation may finally be coming down for many major economies, falling prices and lacklustre growth in China are stoking fears of a deflationary spiral. From our morning news briefing to a ...

November’s consumer inflation reading marked the highest on-year rise since March 2024 but producer prices remained in negative territory.

In the years after WWI, the German mark largely vanished from circulation…in Germany. Was this “deflation”? Actually, quite the opposite. The value of the mark had declined to something south of four ...

India’s annual retail inflation increased to 0.71% year-on-year in November, rising from a record low of 0.25% in October, according to government data released on Friday. The figure was broadly in ...