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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.
An economic calendar is usually displayed as a chart showing the days, weeks and months of a particular year. Each day lists several market-moving events in chronological order, giving investors time to research and anticipate the specific release of interest to them.
The consumer price index rose a scant 0.1% for December, and just 2.7% for 2009, the U.S. Labor Department announced Friday, providing only a few crumbs for the inflation
The Chained Consumer Price Index C-CPI-U, a chained index, has been introduced. The C-CPI-U tries to mitigate the substitution bias that is encountered in CPI-W and CPI-U by employing a Tornqvist formula and utilizing expenditure data in adjacent time periods in order to reflect the effect of any substitution that consumers make across item ...
There's an upside and a downside regarding the most recent U.S. retail inflation data. The upside: The Consumer Price Index rose just 0.3% in January; further, CPI was flat on a year-over-year ...
The final CPI release before the Fed's meeting is expected to be released at 8:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday. Wall Street economists expect headline inflation rose 2.7% annually in November, an increase ...
Size of this JPG preview of this PDF file: 800 × 566 ... Chart of Australian house prices relative to CPI 1986 - 2009 with source data from ABS. Date: 17 May 2010 ...
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 ...