Macroeconomics studies an overall economy or market system, its behaviors, the factors that drive it, and how to improve its performance.

Inflation has been creeping higher from a postpandemic low of 2.3% earlier this year due in part to the highest U.S. tariffs ...

Global investors will get some important news on employment and inflation in the U.S. this week, which likely will stoke concerns the world’s largest economy is facing its biggest stagflation risk ...

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The core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, the Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation, rose slightly in August, in line with economists' expectations. Inflation yardsticks ...

The producer price index, or PPI, surged last month, far outpacing economists' forecasts and suggesting that President Trump's tariffs are starting to significantly drive up the cost of imported goods ...

Inflation ticked up in August in a troubling sign for consumers, but not enough to prevent a Federal Reserve interest rate cut next week as more alarm bells ring in the labor market. Overall inflation ...