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The latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 3% over the prior year in January, an uptick from December's 2.9% annual gain in prices.
Inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), rose 3.5% from a year ago in March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. The figure topped economists’ consensus forecast ...
On a "core" basis, which strips out food and energy prices, CPI is forecast to rise 5% over last year in June, a slowdown from the 5.3% increase seen in May. Monthly core price increases are ...
The reported results were $0.35 per share above the consensus earnings estimate of $2.34 per share. A number of analysts had indicated in the days and weeks leading up to its earnings release that they expected the company to beat estimates and the Earnings Whisper (R) number was $2.70 per share.
Overall consumer prices increased 2.9% from a year earlier, up from 2.7% in November, according to the Labor Department’s consumer price index, a broad measure of goods and services costs.
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.
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 ...
Prices in March rose 0.1% on a monthly basis and 5% from the prior year. Economists had expected prices in April to rise 0.4% month-over-month and 5% over last year, according to data from Bloomberg.