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Nardelli pointed to persistent inflation — the consumer price index rose 0.3% in January, higher than expected — and wage increases, which could be curtailing demand for labor as employers ...
Here's what Home Depot reported, compared to Wall Street estimates, according to Bloomberg consensus: Revenue: $36.42 billion versus $36.66 billion Adjusted earnings per share: $3.63 versus $3.60
A CPI is a statistical estimate constructed using the prices of a sample of representative items whose prices are collected periodically. Sub-indices and sub-sub-indices can be computed for different categories and sub-categories of goods and services, which are combined to produce the overall index with weights reflecting their shares in the total of the consumer expenditures covered by the ...
The Boskin Commission, formally called the "Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index", was appointed by the United States Senate in 1995 to study possible bias in the computation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is used to measure inflation in the United States. Its final report, titled "Toward A More Accurate Measure Of ...
This marks Home Depot's seventh straight quarter of negative sales growth. US same-store sales are down 3.6%. Both foot traffic and the average ticket dropped, down 1.8% and 1.3%, respectively.
For example, the elderly consume roughly double the medical care of all urban consumers (studied for CPI-U and C-CPI-U) and urban wage earners and clerical workers (for CPI-W); inflation in medical care has exceeded that in much of the rest of the economy. To adjust for this, the BLS computes a consumer price index for the elderly (CPI-E). [16]
Home Depot continued to deal with a pullback in spending from customers in its fiscal third quarter, but it was less severe than in the past, and its performance beat Wall Street's expectations.
However, from December 1982 through December 2011, the all-items CPI-E rose at an annual average rate of 3.1 percent, compared with increases of 2.9 percent for both the CPI-U and CPI-W. [28] This suggests that the elderly have been losing purchasing power at the rate of roughly 0.2 (=3.1–2.9) percentage points per year.