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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Erik Sherman reports on business, economics, finance, tech, and law. The Consumer Price Index jumped from 2.7% year-over-year in ...

Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession, investors and executives have grown accustomed to a world of low interest rates and low inflation. No longer. In 2021, inflation began ...

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - The worst U.S. inflation outbreak in a generation turns five years old ...

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ACCRA (Reuters) -Ghana's consumer inflation slowed for the sixth month in a row in June to 13.7% year-on-year, its lowest level since December 2021, the statistics service said on Wednesday.