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Inflation rose at an annual rate of 3.3% in March, driven by the sharpest monthly increase in gas prices since 1967.

The consumer price index (CPI) rose in March as economic shocks ripple through the economy from the war in Iran, the Bureau ...

Live Updates Oil Prices 17 hours ago WTI Crude and Brent Crude are both trading higher today, inching closer to the ...

The Labor Department will likely confirm what most consumers have been feeling. Its official March reading of inflation is expected to rise sharply.

Investors just got their first taste of the war in Iran's impact on prices, and it wasn't pretty. Inflation soared in March, ...

The March CPI jumped by 0.9 percent (equal to market expectations), bringing the 12-month trend rate up to 3.3 percent – the ...

Consumer prices rose 0.9% in a single month in March as the Iran war drove up gas prices. Energy commodities increased the most in one month since at least 1957 when the government began keeping track ...

The oil shock contributed to an extremely high headline CPI number,” said Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer for ...

Oil prices — as measured by Brent crude oil, a global price benchmark — spiked to $118 per barrel by the end of March from ...

The March CPI report dropped at 8:30 a.m. ET Friday, and S&P 500 (CGSPC) futures are barely moving as the markets digest how ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest consumer price index data which showed that CPI inflation surged in March ...