basket

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Ayton’s signature soft touch around the basket has suddenly escaped him.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

The FAO’s food price index—which tracks a basket of widely traded food commodities—averaged 130.7 points in April, up 1.6% from its revised March level and 2% higher than a year ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Goldman Sachs has a basket of what it calls high-beta momentum stocks, basically winners and losers over the last year, with an extra weighting on the outliers over the last month.

From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026

A separate gauge, CPI, or the consumer price index, is calculated by the Labor Department using a different methodology and a different basket of goods.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

And then I saw it, poking out of a basket.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff