price index

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Economic data during the week include the BRC shop price index for April on Tuesday, followed by mortgage lending and consumer credit data for March and the final reading of April manufacturing PMI on Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The consumer price index climbed 2.4% on a year earlier, the fastest pace in three months after cooling a second month running in February to 1.8%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

While the public looks to the consumer price index, or CPI, to track inflation, the Fed spends its time watching a different set of initials: PCE.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

The central bank primarily uses the price index for personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, which tracks the prices American consumers pay for goods and services, to evaluate inflation.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Fifty thousand pounds in modern money, using a retail price index, but £725,000 in modern money using an average wage multiplier.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton