This is the question that the statistics ministry is grappling with, in its effort to revise the base year for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as well as update the weights for different items in ...

Consumer Price Index showed an acceleration to 2.9%, the highest rate since July. With such high inflation, the Fed is ...

The Consumer Price Index report for January is expected to show broadly unchanged annual inflation according to nowcasts. That may be broadly good news for the Fed.

Entering 2025, models from forecasting companies like Trading Economics anticipate inflation rates between 2.4% and 2.9% ...

The inflation rate for December 2024 will be calculated using the 2009 base year ... The NBS disclosed the CPI release dates and calculation benchmark year during a sensitization workshop held ...

Similarly, a reduction in housing prices may occur during colder months, which may not be the case during warmer months of the year. Though the CPI adjusts for seasonality, it does not adjust for ...

Consumer prices rose at a faster annual pace in December, removing any hopes for a rate cut at the Monetary Policy Committee ...

and subsidies. The derived CPI answers the question of how would prices have changed if the tax rates had remained the same as in the base year.