The Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep interest rates unchanged at its policy meeting next week, shifting the market’s focus to signals about what comes next. Yet, behind the scenes, something ...

The trick is finding inflation’s sweet spot — too much or too little can lead to a lot of problems for the economy and consumers. The Federal Reserve tries to keep inflation at a steady 2% rate. Some ...

Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM) plans to launch a pilot phase of inflation targeting in 2026 as part of a transition toward a flexible exchange rate ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The ECB should abandon targeting headline inflation and focus instead on price growth in discretionary spending to protect the bloc's poorest, a paper to be presented to ...

LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters Breakingviews) - “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” Milton Friedman’s famous dogma looks increasingly quaint today. In the face of unprecedented public ...

This paper examines the effectiveness of inflation targeting (IT) frameworks during the global inflation surge of 2022, a shock primarily driven by large adverse supply side disruptions following the ...

Economist Peter Schiff criticized the Federal Reserve’s 2% inflation target as a pretext for accommodative monetary policy, amid Fed Chair Jerome Powell‘s recent congressional testimony highlighting ...

The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI), which is the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation, grew at an annualized rate of 3.2 percent in August 2025. According to the BEA ...

South Africa’s new lower inflation target is giving the rand fresh momentum, with policymakers and analysts agreeing it could ...

The Bank of Thailand’s outgoing Governor Sethaput Suthiwartnarueput urged moving away from specific inflation targeting, saying price trends will increasingly get upended by supply shocks that ...

A common stress shared by communities at large in today’s economy is the constantly rising rate of inflation we are experiencing. Naturally, there is some disagreement amongst various groups on how ...

OTTAWA—The Bank of Canada has begun work on next year’s renewal of its inflation-targeting framework, although Gov. Tiff Macklem on Friday rejected any talk of changing the target level from 2%.