Dozens of drug companies raised prices at a higher rate than inflation and will need to pay rebates to Medicare, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday. The refunds are ...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.7% annually in November, below estimates at 3.1%. Investors cheered the news as it could encourage the Fed to lower rates. Retailers are seeing consumers trade ...

“Just as President Trump told Americans last night: inflation continues to fall, wages continue to rise, and America is trending towards a historic economic boom. Today’s report shows that inflation ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...

FRANKFURT, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Euro zone inflation unexpectedly ticked up last month, likely solidifying bets that no further European Central Bank rate cuts are coming anytime soon, data from Eurostat ...

The bonds known as Treasury inflation-protected securities are designed to protect investors’ income against rising prices and perhaps even deliver an extra bit of return. But do TIPS, as the bonds ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s favored inflation gauge accelerated slightly in August from a year earlier. The Commerce Department reported Friday that its personal consumption expenditures ...

Inflation accelerated in August, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department, complicating the Federal Reserve’s efforts to balance interest rates amid intense political and economic ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Luis E. Romero is an entrepreneur, author and speaker. “Who’s smarter—humans or AI?” Experts and the general public wrestle with ...