price index

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This price hike will have a limited impact on the consumer price index, which has only a small weighting for such devices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026

Up until now, the Fed has relied mostly on one set of calculations — the personal-consumption expenditures, or PCE, price index.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 17, 2026

Other economic data set to be released next week include Rightmove house price index data on Monday, and U.K. consumer confidence survey data, public sector finances data, and U.K. retail sales data on Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

May inflation rose by an eye-watering 4.2% annual rate, but it could mark a peak for the consumer price index.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 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