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The PCE price index (PePP), also referred to as the PCE deflator, PCE price deflator, or the Implicit Price Deflator for Personal Consumption Expenditures (IPD for PCE) by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and as the Chain-type Price Index for Personal Consumption Expenditures (CTPIPCE) by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), is a United States-wide indicator of the average increase ...
Last week, the Labor Department reported a larger-than-expected 0.5% month-over-month increase in CPI for January. The comparable Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index the Fed uses for its ...
Earlier this month, the core Consumer Price Index (CPI), which strips out the more volatile costs of food and gas, showed prices in October posted an annual gain of 3.3% for the third consecutive ...
The Commerce Department also reported on Friday that in the year through November, the PCE price index advanced 2.4% after rising 2.3% in October. Excluding the volatile food and energy components ...
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 ...
Over the prior year, core prices rose 2.8%, in line with Wall Street's expectations and unchanged from November. On a yearly basis, overall PCE increased 2.6%, a pickup from the 2.4% seen in November.
The consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) is a continuation of the historical index that was introduced after World War I for use in wage negotiation. [23] As new uses were developed for the CPI, the need for a broader and more representative index became apparent.
In the 12 months through October, the PCE price index increased 2.3 after advancing 2.1% in September. Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the PCE price index rose 0.3%, after a ...