price index

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The Bureau of Economic Analysis releases the personal consumption expenditures price index for March.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

The Fed faces persistent inflation, with the PCE price index at 2.8%.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

The consumer price index climbed 2.4% on a year earlier, the fastest pace in three months after cooling a second month running in February to 1.8%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

The central bank primarily uses the price index for personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, which tracks the prices American consumers pay for goods and services, to evaluate inflation.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 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