Cpi news and trends

Big Tech’s AI Gatekeepers Could Draw Regulatory Scrutiny
Artificial Intelligence // August 20, 2026

Watch more: TechREG Talks With Anant Raut The legal architecture governing software rests on a useful assumption: However sophisticated the technology becomes, somewhere behind it sits a person or company responsible for the consequential decision. Agentic artificial intelligence, however, is beginning to put distance between...

Rising Food and Shelter Costs Test Household Budgets
Economy // June 10, 2026

Inflation accelerated in May, and while energy prices continue to grab headlines, shelter, food and services, categories that account for a large share of recurring household expenses, continued to climb. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) data released Wednesday (June 10) by the Bureau of Labor...

Food, Shelter Costs Rise Despite Overall Inflation Cool Down
Economy // June 11, 2025

The latest reading on inflation shows an overall easing in the pace of price increases. The data released Wednesday (June 11) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the impact of tariffs has been benign, or at least they were in May. But essential...

Is February’s Tempered Pace the Calm Before the Inflation Storm?
Economy // March 12, 2025

The slight rise in consumer prices, as February’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Wednesday (March 12) showed, may just be (relative) calm before the inflationary storm. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 0.2% higher in February, as measured against January’s levels, and annualized inflation...

Interviews & Exclusives
Brazil Treats Minority AI Stakes as Major Competition Signals

August 25, 2026
Watch more: TechReg Talks With Marcela Mattiuzzo of VMCA Advogados The defining antitrust question of the artificial intelligence era may be less about how aggressively regulators intervene than how long they can afford to wait. And Marcela Mattiuzzo, partner at VMCA Advogados, told Competition Policy International (CPI), a PYMNTS company, that Brazil is emerging as a test case. […]

Big Tech’s AI Gatekeepers Could Draw Regulatory Scrutiny

August 20, 2026
Watch more: TechREG Talks With Anant Raut The legal architecture governing software rests on a useful assumption: However sophisticated the technology becomes, somewhere behind it sits a person or company...

January’s Inflation Shows Essential Expenses Erode Consumers’ Purchasing Power

February 12, 2025
It’s not just about the eggs. Consumers were already feeling the pinch of higher inflation well before the January data on the Consumer Price Index was released by the Bureau...

Latest CPI Data Finds Consumers Literally Spend More Bread to Buy Bread

October 10, 2024
In economics, there’s often a bifurcation when it comes to data — the difference between what the headlines tell us and what the wallet feels. Case in point: Septembers’ official...

Quick Reads
Markups by Auto Dealers Helped Fuel Inflation, Government Study Shows

April 23, 2023
New government research shows that markups on new vehicles helped drive the inflation plaguing consumers. A recent study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows that those added profits contributed 0.3 to 0.7 percentage points to the almost 16% increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) between the close of 2019 and the […]

Report: Climbing CPI Could Force More Fed Rate Hikes

April 09, 2023
Durable U.S. inflation last month could test the Federal Reserve. As Bloomberg News reported Saturday (April 8), upcoming government data is expected to show a 0.4% increase in the core consumer price...

CPI Card Group Debuts Mobile Wallet Tool

March 23, 2022
Payments technology company CPI Card Group Inc. has debuted its Push Provisioning service, the Colorado company said in a news release Wednesday (March 23). The service “facilitates the tokenization of...

US Consumer Price Index Drops To 2008 Level In April

May 12, 2020
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell to its lowest level in a dozen years last month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The CPI, a measure of...