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Prices and inflation news API

Price movements, inflation prints and cost-of-living coverage. Pass topic=TAX_ECON_PRICE to filter.

5.0karticles
1749outlets
3per outlet

What does the prices and inflation topic actually cover?

Statistical releases and the reaction to them, cost-of-living reporting, commodity and consumer price movements, and the political argument that follows each of those. It mixes two registers that read nothing alike: wire coverage of an official print, and retail reporting built on what a basket costs in one shop.

How do I filter news to prices and inflation?

Pass topic=TAX_ECON_PRICE on /search or /stories. Pair with a country. Inflation is measured and argued about nationally, and an unscoped query returns whichever economy the wires led on that week rather than the one you meant. Bound tightly to the release calendar when you want reaction, and deliberately away from it when you want the cost-of-living reporting that runs continuously underneath.

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GET /stories?topic=TAX_ECON_PRICE&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20

What catches people out with prices and inflation coverage?

Reading volume as economic stress. Volume on this topic is a statistical-release calendar: it spikes on print days in every country whether the number was surprising or not. A month with three prints outranks a month with one regardless of what happened to prices, so compare against the calendar rather than against the previous month.

Who publishes on it

Financial wires carry the print within minutes and dominate the first hour. National business press adds the domestic argument over the following day, and consumer and retail titles run a separate, slower stream about what things cost, which rarely cites the statistics at all. The three barely overlap in vocabulary, which is why keyword queries here return one of them and miss the rest.

In the sample, 1749 outlets carry prices and inflation coverage at about 3 articles each. The busiest is dailypolitical.com at roughly 3%, and dailypolitical.com, themarketsdaily.com, tickerreport.com account for about 7% between them. Flat enough that volume here translates fairly directly into independent reporting rather than one newsroom publishing repeatedly.

What it is best for

Best for tracking how a number landed — whether a print was read as relief or alarm, and how quickly the framing settled. Weakest as a source for prices themselves, which are published by statistical agencies and do not need a news index to reach you.

Monitoring it over time

Establish a baseline against the release calendar for each country you follow, and alert on deviation from it rather than on any threshold. The genuinely informative signal is off-calendar coverage: inflation reporting on a day with no scheduled release usually means a shortage, a currency move or a political intervention, and that is the story.

Which signals pair with prices and inflation?

Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.

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GET /search?topic=TAX_ECON_PRICE&signal=economy&signal_min=0.25

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Recent coverage

From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.

Who covers it

dailypolitical.com · themarketsdaily.com · tickerreport.com · finanznachrichten.de · cfi.net.cn · tribunnews.com · finanzen.net · zol.com.cn · itbear.com.cn · sina.com.cn · chip.de · baomoi.com

Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.