In advance of today's FOMC meeting outcome and Chairman Bernanke's press conference, let's take a quick look at a couple of items in the latest Wall Street Journal survey of economists -- this one ...

Note from dshort: This commentary has been revised to include Real Retail Sales for May. The Sales data was released last Thursday, but we needed this morning's Consumer Price Index to make an ...

The June 2013 Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released today puts the May year-over-year inflation rate at 1.36%, dramatically below the 3.91% average since the end of the Second ...

Yesterday's market meme was "pleasant trading ahead of the Fed." The recently troublesome and highly volatile Nikkei finished the day with a minor slip of -0.20%, and the eurozone was on hold with the...

Note from dshort: I've updated this commentary to include the latest Consumer Price Index data published this morning. The Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U, or more generally CPI) is ...

Note from dshort: I've updated the accompanying charts with the latest Consumer Price Index data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The annualized rate of change is calculated to two decimal places ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest CPI data yesterday. Year-over-year unadjusted Headline CPI came in at 1.36%, which the BLS rounds to 1.4%, up from 1.06% last month (rounded to ...

Here is a table showing the annualized change in Headline and Core CPI, not seasonally adjusted, for each of the past five months. I've also included each of the eight components of Headline CPI and a...

It's time again for my weekly gasoline update based on data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Rounded to the penny, the average for Regular was down three cents and Premium two cents. ...

Before the market opened yesterday, the Nikkei had closed the day with a 2.73%% gain and major European indexes were faring well. The S&P 500 opened higher and rallied to its 1.22% intraday high ...