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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.
America’s red-hot inflation rate just got hotter. The consumer price index (CPI), which measures a variety of goods and services, rose 8.5% in March from a year earlier. The CPI report for March ...
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) revealed headline inflation rose 0.1% over last month and 4% over the prior year in May, a slowdown from April's 0.4% month-over-month increase and 4.9% annual gain.
The CPI rose 0.8% in February compared to January after increasing by 0.6% during the prior month. A surge in energy prices was one of the key contributors to the latest red-hot CPI print.
The economic data published on FRED are widely reported in the media and play a key role in financial markets. In a 2012 Business Insider article titled "The Most Amazing Economics Website in the World", Joe Weisenthal quoted Paul Krugman as saying: "I think just about everyone doing short-order research — trying to make sense of economic issues in more or less real time — has become a ...
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 ...
Excluding shelter, the CPI was up 1.7% for the 12 months ended in July, according to BLS data. Energy prices (notably gasoline), which had served as a drag on the May and June CPI, were flat for July.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its January Consumer Price Index (CPI) at 8:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday. Here are the main figures from the report, compared to Wall Street estimates.