Rising cost of foodstuffs contributes to 2.7% increase in price levels in September from the same month in 2024, says CSO ...

Inflation in the Irish economy jumped back to almost 3 per cent in September. The latest flash estimate for the harmonised ...

Inflation has been the spectre haunting the global economy for over a year now. Fuelled initially by global events such as the Ukraine invasion, Brexit and the Suez canal traffic jam, there are signs ...

The Yiddish phrase “farshlepteh krenk”, untranslatable into English, describes an illness that just won’t go away. That is how some countries’ experience of inflation has felt. The rate of price rises ...

THE Central Bank yesterday downgraded its growth forecast for 2007, but maintained that the new forecast of a 5pc rise in output meant the economy was still in good shape. Explaining the new estimate, ...

The consumer price index rose in August at a 2.9 percent annual rate, up from July. Weekly jobless claims rose to the highest level since 2021, as the labor market weakens. Inflation heated up in ...

US personal spending rose at a solid clip in August for a third month, suggesting consumers continued to power the economy despite elevated inflation. Consumer spending, adjusted for changes in prices ...

Poverty levels in Nigeria have climbed sharply, even as the government pushes ahead with major economic reforms meant to spur ...