price index

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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 upshot of Tuesday’s producer price data is that key PPI components that feed into the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, the personal consumption expenditures price index, were more mixed than expected.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

The personal-consumption expenditures price index, which is largely based on data from the CPI and PPI, will be updated on April 30.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 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