When mayors set property taxes and lenders underwrite loans based on average office rents, they may be working from numbers that don't reflect reality.
GDP isn’t just a quarterly headline, as it shapes fiscal ratios, influences monetary policy, and signals macroeconomic stability. Therefore, when the base year changes, the story of growth may also ...
The annual rate of inflation based on All India Wholesale Price Index (WPI) number is 2.13% (provisional) for the month of February, 2026 (over February, 2025). This marked a modest rise from 1.81% in ...
India’s GDP growth between 2012 and 2023 may have been overstated, with actual expansion closer to 4–4.5% a year than the official estimate of about 6%, says a working paper by Abhishek Anand, Josh Fe ...
A big driving force was lower energy costs in January, which won’t last, and at least one other factor may have been redefined without mention.
A methodological change contributed to a better-than-expected inflation report, prompting questions from some economists.
GDP rose at a seasonally and inflation-adjusted annual rate of just 0.7% in the fourth quarter, according to a Commerce Department revision Friday. The first revision of the GDP reading was a sharp ...
"The inflation trajectory will only steepen in the coming months to around 4.5%, with gasoline prices set to climb to $3.75 on average nationally, a spike in diesel and fertilizer ...
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday its Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCE) rose largely in line with ...
Not many economic reports are likely to affect mortgage rates while markets are distracted by war. But today's inflation ...
What is America to make of this, heading toward November’s midterms? Recent consumer and voter surveys all point to dissatisfaction. According to Gallup, only 59 percent of Americans expect ...
I’m Chris Anstey, a senior economics editor in Boston, and today we’re looking at an divergence between the two main US inflation gauges. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net. And if ...