CONSUMER PRICE INDEX

The overall CPI and the core reading both stayed within the Federal Reserve's target for inflation.

What's more, one analyst argued the downward pressure on core inflation (excluding food/energy) is fading.

Peter Costa, president of Empire Executions, discusses retail sales, the Consumer Price Index and housing starts for this week.

However, the core rate, which excludes food and energy, rose just 0.2% - or well within the Federal Reserve's 'comfort zone' for inflation.

The 0.8% jump was led by a 7.2% surge in wholesale gasoline prices. Meanwhile, the core PPI rate rose just 0.2%.

In the past year, prices are up 1.4% - or well within the Federal Reserve's "comfort zone" for inflation.

U.S. stock index futures gain as markets await reports on inflation and housing starts.

Industrial production in the 17-nation euro zone increased for the third straight month in April, beating expectations.

U.S. stock index futures point to a flat opening on Thursday ahead of a wave of economic data.

Obama is backing a new CPI that would lower statistically-reported inflation, increase income taxes and slow Social Security spending growth.

Higher U.S. gasoline prices lifted a key inflation measure 0.7 percent in February, more than expected.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a flat open Friday ahead of the publication of Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for February.

U.S. stock index futures point to a lower open Thursday ahead of the Labor Department's weekly jobless claims data and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for January.

Thailand’s consumer confidence rose in December compared to that in the previous month, indicating an improvement in domestic spending which accounts for the majority of overall economic activity.

Also this week, China's policymakers are expected to meet on Dec. 12-14 for the annual Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC) to set the policy framework for 2013.

The U.S. economy continues to strengthen, boosted by home sales and manufactured goods: computers, refrigerators and heavy machinery.

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will cover both domestic and foreign policies during the second U.S. presidential debate Tuesday.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open Friday as investors kept up a buoyant mood following the announcement of quantitative easing measures by the Federal Reserve, which is expected to boost economic growth.

China reported a trade surplus of $26.66 billion in August amid the slower-than-expected growth in exports and imports, raising concern that the world's second largest economy isn't doing enough to stimulate the economy and avert a slowdown.

A slowdown in exports, a slump in the earnings of domestic companies and surging food prices cast downward pressure on the world's second-biggest economy in August as the China's National Bureau of Statistics reported Sunday that the Consumer Price Index rose 2 percent.

An unofficial gauge of human misery in the U.S. is now sitting at its lowest level in three years. Not four. In other words, while conditions have improved somewhat, Americans are still feeling miserable under President Barack Obama's watch and that obviously doesn't bode well for Obama's re-election chances.