price index

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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

The PCE price index for March, due in two weeks, is likely to show the rate of overall U.S. inflation rising to a nearly three-year high of 3.4%, up from 2.8% in the prior month.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

Already, the consumer price index rose 3.3% year over year in March, up from a 2.4% annual rate in February.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

It raised its consensus for year-end core inflation, based on the price index of personal-consumption expenditures, to 2.9% from 2.6% in January.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 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