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[ad_1] Retail sales slumped on Thursday even though the latest data on consumer prices earlier this week showed a cooling. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon says the retail giant is managing for inflation and a slowdown in consumer demand that extends into 2023, and the economic conditions are changing what shoppers …

[ad_1] Minneapolis CNN  —  US retail sales fell sharply at the start of the holiday shopping season, dropping by 0.6% during the month of November, according to data released Thursday by the Commerce Department. Pullbacks in auto sales helped drive the decline — the largest monthly decrease seen all year …

[ad_1] Police officers step into the vandalized gateway to Sri Lanka’s presidential palace in July. The country has been hit hard by an economic crisis. Abhishek Chinnappa | Getty Images News | Getty Images Curtis S. Chin, a former U.S. ambassador to the Asian Development Bank, is managing director of …

[ad_1] Natalia Gdovskaia | Moment | Getty Images In an environment of high inflation, health insurance costs are doing the opposite: They’ve begun to deflate, and are poised to continue dropping each month until fall 2023, economists predict. Health insurance prices fell by 4% in October and 4.3% in November, …

[ad_1] Inflation in the United States hit a record high in June 2022. Consumer prices soared by 9.1% compared with a year prior — the largest annual increase since 1981. While wages are rising, they’re not keeping up with inflation. Wage growth has been consistent with an inflation rate of …

[ad_1] New York CNN  —  Anya Remy is Christmas shopping for her family on a stricter budget than ever before. Remy, a human resources professional in Maryland, has felt the pain of high inflation in recent months. So, she asked her kids to cut down their Christmas lists and has …

[ad_1] Inflation has already peaked, but it will remain above pre-Covid levels in 2023, said David Mann, chief economist for Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa at the Mastercard Economics Institute. “Inflation has seen its peak this year, but it will still be above what we had been used to pre-pandemic …

[ad_1] Shoppers are seen in a Kroger supermarket on October 14, 2022, in Atlanta, Georgia. Elijah Nouvelage | AFP | Getty Images More players in the stock market and among the ranks of professional economists have come around to the view that inflation has peaked or already is in decline, …

[ad_1] Wholesale prices in November may have been slightly hotter than expected, but next week’s look at consumer prices is the one that may solidify the Federal Reserve’s upcoming interest rate decision. Ultimately, we think the November consumer price index (CPI) holds more weight with the market and the Fed …

[ad_1] New York CNN  —  Another key inflation measure shows price pressures cooled off last month, a hopeful sign that American consumers may soon see the end of decades-high price hikes. The Producer Price Index, which measures prices paid for goods and services by businesses before they reach consumers, rose …