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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 ...
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 ...
When food and gas prices are added back in, PCE rose 2.2% in August — just two-tenths away from the Fed’s 2% inflation target. That was lower than estimates of 2.3% and down from 2.5% in July.
The latest reading of the Fed's preferred inflation gauge showed prices increased slightly more than expected in June. The core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index, which strips out the ...
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 ...
The Consumer Price Index was initiated during World War I, when rapid increases in prices, particularly in shipbuilding centers, made an index essential for calculating cost-of-living adjustments in wages. To provide appropriate weighting patterns for the index, it reflected the relative importance of goods and services purchased in 92 ...
This was an intermeeting rate cut held in response to the January stock downturn, with the results announced Tuesday morning before the U.S. market opened. Poole dissented, saying that emergency action was not required and could wait for the scheduled meeting. Mishkin was absent. Official statement: December 11, 2007 4.25% 4.75% 9–1
The core PCE index — the Fed's preferred gauge of underlying inflation stripping out volatile food and energy prices — likely also ramped compared to December's index.