price index
noun
: an index number expressing the level of a group of commodity prices relative to the level of the prices of the same commodities during an arbitrarily chosen base period and used to indicate changes in the level of prices from one period to another
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That was quickly followed by an even hotter wholesale inflation report on Wednesday morning, with the April producer price index (PPI) spiking 6% annually, its biggest jump since 2022.
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Zev Fima, CNBC, 13 May 2026
Economists also watch it because some of its components, notably measures of healthcare and financial services, flow into the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge — the Commerce Department’s personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, price index.
—Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
Economists also watch it because some of its components, notably measures of health care and financial services, flow into the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge — the Commerce Department’s personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, price index.
—Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
My trusty spreadsheet looked back to 1990 to see how annual swings in the 30-year mortgage rate, as tracked by Freddie Mac, meshed with home-price indexes from the Federal Housing Finance Agency and job counts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 13 May 2026
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Zev Fima, CNBC, 13 May 2026
Economists also watch it because some of its components, notably measures of healthcare and financial services, flow into the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge — the Commerce Department’s personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, price index.
—Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
Economists also watch it because some of its components, notably measures of health care and financial services, flow into the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge — the Commerce Department’s personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, price index.
—Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
My trusty spreadsheet looked back to 1990 to see how annual swings in the 30-year mortgage rate, as tracked by Freddie Mac, meshed with home-price indexes from the Federal Housing Finance Agency and job counts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 13 May 2026
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“Price index.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/price%20index. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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