The consumer price index increased 2.8% in February from a year ago, the first slowdown in the annual inflation rate since September, according to new data from the Labor Department. Core inflation, which excludes the volatile food and energy categories,

Inflation eased in February: the Consumer Price Index rose 0.2% last month, while the gauge that excludes food and energy prices increased by a similar amount, the Labor Department said on Wednesday.

A new survey from the University of Michigan shows Americans bracing for economic pain as tariffs and policy uncertainty bite.

Consumers are becoming sharply more pessimistic about the economic outlook, according to a preliminary reading of the University of Michigan's sentiment survey for March. Why it m

US consumer sentiment has plunged to its lowest level in over two years. Inflation expectations have jumped the most since 1993. The University of Michigan’s preliminary March sentiment index sank to 57.