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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 ...
The latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 3% over the prior year in January, an uptick from December's 2.9% annual gain in prices.
The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, officially designated Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, [a] is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States, encompassing 11 counties. Its historically dominant core cities are Dallas and Fort Worth. [5]
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.
The S&P index attained an all-time high in July 2006, at a value of 206.52. On December 30, 2008, the index recorded its largest year-to-year drop. Since World War II, the original index has mostly fluctuated between 100 and 120, with peaks (followed by precipitous falls) in 1Q 1979 (which peaked at 122), 3Q 1989 (at 126), and 1Q 2006 (at 198).
Consumer Price Index for Americans 62 years of age and older (R-CPI-E): This index re-weights prices from the CPI-U data to track spending for households with at least one consumer age 62 or older.
The producer price index released a day earlier on January 14 reported a modest 0.3% increase in wholesale prices in December, ... Consumer Price Index Summary, U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics ...
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