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A day after Harley-Davidson reported weaker quarterly earnings, the famed motorcycle maker got a warning that its debt ...

The subdued rise in retail prices in January, as measured by the CPI, should comfort Federal Reserve leaders. But they ...

Social Security’s cost of living adjustment for 2027 could be as low as 1.2%, marking the lowest COLA in a decade, as new ...

The January CPI report was encouraging under the surface, with shelter costs finally decelerating and tariff effects fading, ...

Overall, the January consumer-inflation report was largely in line with expectations. But the only troubling aspect was the ...

The blue-chip Dow lost it grip on the 50,000 threshold Thursday as stocks were swept up by an "AI fear" trade.

Treasury yields were falling Friday, after fresh data showed inflation in January was slightly softer than expected. The ...

January has often delivered nasty inflation surprises, even before the pandemic. How come? One old reason, and one new.

Gold and silver prices were edging higher early Friday after a reading on consumer inflation came in more tame than expected.

Payrolls will matter more than inflation in defining the forward path for interest rates, but today's CPI report won't be ...

Applied Materials stock rallied 12% as the chip-equipment maker forecast over 20% growth this year, helped by AI-fueled ...