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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.
Headline consumer prices rose as forecast last month. The CPI increased 2.9% over the prior year in December, an uptick from November's 2.7% annual gain in prices.The yearly increase matched ...
Overall, the CPI did increase more than anticipated, rising 0.4% from November and jumping 0.2 percentage points to annual rate of 2.9%. However, the monthly gain was largely driven by gas and ...
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 ...
Energy costs accounted for over 40% of the monthly CPI increase, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics' energy index rising 2.6% in December after energy prices showed little change in recent months ...
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.
The CPI jumped 0.5% last month after gaining 0.4% in December, the Labor said on Wednesday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the CPI gaining 0.3% and rising 2.9% year-on-year. Fed funds ...
The chain-type price PCE index draws extensively on data from the consumer price index but, while not entirely free of measurement problems, has several advantages relative to the CPI. The PCE chain-type index is constructed from a formula that reflects the changing composition of spending and thereby avoids some of the upward bias associated ...