Exports drive growth while race-to-the-bottom competition from overproduction hits prices, profits, wages and sales.

Explore how deflation affects investment values, the shift toward cash preservation, and strategies that investors can use to navigate an economic downturn.

Explore how deflation impacts national debt, from rising real debt values to reduced spending and increased interest rates impacting economic growth.

In this erratic market, preoccupation with possible rising interest rates and inflation has flip-flopped to worries over an opposing force: deflation. Economists are debating whether deflation, or ...

China's producer prices plunged 3.6% in June from a year earlier, marking its largest decline since July 2023. The consumer price index edged 0.1% higher in June from a year ago, beating the estimates ...

China’s September CPI remained in deflation, as the drag from food prices overshadowed higher non-food inflation. While data already supports further monetary easing, the People’s Bank of China could ...

Cathie Wood, Wall Street's most vocal proponent of deflation, is getting a few high-profile supporters even as price pressures continued to surprise to the upside. Jeffrey Gundlach and Elon Musk ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's hardened rhetoric against price wars among producers is raising expectations Beijing may be about to kick off industrial capacity cuts in a long-awaited, but challenging, ...

Absent in any significant way since the Great Depression, deflation - a prolonged period of downward-spiraling prices of goods and services - is seen as a possible threat after three straight months ...

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese energy sector worker Mandy Li likes to treat herself to a luxury brand handbag once in a while. But since her state-owned employer cut her wage by 10% and the ...

Inflation figures influence everything from tax decisions and welfare spending to interest rates and growth projections.

Inflation has pulled back significantly from its pandemic-era peak. In fact, some categories have fallen into outright deflation, meaning consumers are seeing the prices decline instead of rise.