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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The major stock indexes declined on Friday as investors digested the latest producer price index data that came in a lot hotter than expected.
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Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 28 Feb. 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 personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, price index.
—Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 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 personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, price index.
—ABC News, 27 Feb. 2026
Among those inputs used to compile the PCE price index, portfolio management costs, airfares and physician care costs rose firmly.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026
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Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 28 Feb. 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 personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, price index.
—Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 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 personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, price index.
—ABC News, 27 Feb. 2026
Among those inputs used to compile the PCE price index, portfolio management costs, airfares and physician care costs rose firmly.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026
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“Price index.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/price%20index. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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