A shopper at a grocery store in Dayton, Ohio, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday released its much-anticipated consumer price index report, delayed a week and a half because of the government shutdown. Here are the five most important takeaways: While…
The Consumer Price Index climbed at an annual rate of 3% in September, coming in below economists’ forecasts as the impact of President Trump’s tariffs remain muted. By the numbers Economists polled by financial data firm FactSet had forecast CPI rose at a 3.1% annual clip last month. The CPI measures price changes in a…
The Social Security Administration on Friday announced a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment for 2026, an increase that will automatically boost monthly payments for the program’s roughly 75 million beneficiaries starting early next year. The increase represents an uptick from the last year’s cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, which set the 2025 increase at 2.5%. Inflation has edged higher…
A delayed inflation report on Friday is expected to deliver sobering data about the direction of U.S. prices, with economists forecasting that the Consumer Price Index in September rose at its fastest pace in 16 months. CPI last month is projected to have risen 3.1% on an annual basis, which would be the highest since…
Turkeys aren’t known for flying but their prices are soaring ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. A September outlook report from the United States Agriculture Department estimates that wholesale prices for frozen turkeys will be $1.32 per pound this year, a 40% increase from 2024’s average of $0.94 per pound. The wholesale price is what retailers pay…
Senator Deb Fischer said she has “deep concerns” about U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to import beef from Argentina to help curb prices, adding that cattle ranchers have had “the rug pulled out from under them” by his administration. The Nebraska Republican, whose state is one of the top beef producers in the U.S., said…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell on July 15, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Let’s begin with a difficult truth: the Shiller PE ratio of the S&P 500…
U.S. stock futures pointed higher on Sunday evening as Wall Street looks ahead to a big week for the U.S.-China trade war, corporate earnings, and economic data. President Donald Trump again set the tone for the market after he further softened his rhetoric on China in an interview with Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “I’m not…
As economic uncertainty deepens, the rush for gold continues — with prices for the precious metal topping $4,300 for the first time this week. The going price for New York spot closed at a record $4,326 per troy ounce on Thursday. Futures also traded as high at more than $4,344 per troy ounce Thursday, before…
CHIPPEWA VALLEY — Throughout Wisconsin’s 421 school districts, roughly 70% have seen enrollment decline over the past several years. This comes according to data from the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty’s 2025 School Scorecard Dashboard. According to a Wisconsin Policy Forum report released in October 2023, enrollment counts back in the 2020-21 school year…