price index

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

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

The industrial-product price index measures the prices that manufacturers in Canada receive once their goods leave the plant.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

The Conference Board’s consumer confidence indicator for May and the Case-Shiller March home price index for March are also released on Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

But airfares rose 2.8% in April from March and have risen 20.7% from last year, the sharpest annual increase since February 2023, according to the last consumer price index, Barron’s reported.

From Barron's • May 17, 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