price index

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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

Core PCE is the change from a year earlier in the quarterly average of the seasonally adjusted personal-consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Core PCE is the change from a year earlier in the quarterly average of the seasonally adjusted personal-consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

The producer price index jumped 0.5% last month, the government said Tuesday, to mark the fourth straight big increase.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 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