The World Bank predicted slowing inflation but still warned that it “could prove to be more persistent than expected.” That chimes with markets.

I t is more than two years since high inflation returned to the rich world, and hopes that it will quietly fade are themselves fading. True, prices are rising more slowly than in 2022, when the ...

FRANKFURT, Germany — Inflation in the 19 European countries that use the euro currency has broken into double digits as prices for electricity and natural gas soar, signaling a winter recession ...

Just like misery, inflation loves company. And as price increases linger near 40-year highs, the United States has plenty of it.

Inflation in the United States was relatively low for so long that, for entire generations of Americans, rapid price hikes may have seemed like a relic of the distant past. Between the start of 1991 ...

Around the world, soaring prices are emerging as a feature of the pandemic-era recovery, prompting some central banks to pivot to inflation fighting. Advertisement ...

Why Inflation Around the World Just Won’t Go Away. Roughly a year into their campaign against high inflation, policy makers are some way from being able to declare victory. By .

Two years ago, high inflation was about supply shortages and pricier goods. Then it was about war in Ukraine and energy. These days, services are key.

Meanwhile, annual inflation in Germany and the U.K. — countries with comparable economies — ran nearly as high: 7.5% and 8.2%, respectively, for the 12 months ending in June 2022. In Spain ...

Price are rising quickly across huge swaths of the developed world, with inflation in countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development surging in April to the ...

An easing of food price rises and a high base likely helped Indian inflation slow to a more than six-year low in June, ...