price index

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But Fed officials pay more attention to the Commerce Department’s personal-consumption expenditures price index, or PCE, which the central bank uses to define its inflation target.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

The personal-consumption price index rose by 0.4% last month, the fifth large increase in a row.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

A more detailed look into price pressures will come this Thursday when the Commerce Department releases its reading of the personal consumption expenditures price index, The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

The core PCE price index, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, is expected to rise 3.3%, compared to 3.2% previously.

From Barron's • May 24, 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