Social Security benefits will arguably lose buying power next year because the 2.5% COLA understates inflation.

The BLS also publishes the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). The CPI-W covers 29% of the U.S. population living in households with income derived ...

A second large survey is the CPI-W, which is a monthly accounting of the average change in the prices that urban wages earners and clerical workers pay for a market basket of consumer goods and ...

Half of all seniors are considering returning to work as Social Security payments fail to provide enough, a new survey has found. A poll conducted among 2,000 American retirees by ...

The drop reflects the easing of inflationary pressures. Changes to the COLA are based on the CPI-W, which is a measure of price changes for a selection of goods and services, including food ...

October's consumer prices were a touch higher than the previous month, but came in both tame and as expected, doing little to ...

Later today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will release its latest consumer price index (CPI) numbers, and economists ...

The Consumer Price Index rose 2.6 percent in the year through October, a sign that inflation remains stubborn. The report ...

JPMorgan's trading desk gave a scenario outlook on how the market would respond to various monthly core CPI readings. The options market is pricing in a 0.7% move, either up or down, for the S&P 500, ...

Sticker shock helped drive Americans to the polls last week. But according to Wednesday’s consumer-price index, there's a ...

Headline CPI likely remained at 0.2% in October, corresponding to 2.6% year over year (vs. 2.4% prior). Core inflation, which ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 flipped back into the green ahead of Wednesday's afternoon session, with investors and traders weighing the prospects of stabilizing prices following ...