How to Use core inflation in a Sentence
core inflation
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Compared with a year ago, core inflation slipped to 5.3% from 5.5%.
—Christopher Rugaber, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2023
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That offset a fall in the cost of goods, leaving core inflation unchanged at 6.9%.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 16 Aug. 2023
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The last reading on the Fed’s preferred core inflation measure showed prices rose 3.9% in the 12 months through August.
—Craig Torres, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2023
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Still, taking food and energy out of the mix left core inflation at 4.8% in June – well above the Fed's 2% target.
—Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
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Last week, Fed officials sharply marked up their forecast of how high core inflation would be at the end of 2023.
—Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 21 June 2023
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Over the past year, core inflation has trended down in a sign that the rate hikes are generally working.
—Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024
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They may soon be seen in even softer core inflation readings.
—Heard Editors, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
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Still, the Fed has expressed concern that core inflation, which leaves out food and fuel prices, remains well above the bank's 2% target.
—Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 26 July 2023
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Compared with a year ago, core inflation was still a relatively high 4.8%, though down sharply from 5.3% in May.
—Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2023
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Deutsche Bank expects core inflation (which excludes food and gas prices and is closely watched by the Federal Reserve) to come in at 4.2% from 12 months ago.
—Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2023
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From May to June, core inflation was just 0.2%, down from 0.3% the previous month, an encouraging sign.
—Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2023
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The final piece of the equation is ‘core inflation,’ which measures inflation but doesn’t count prices for food and energy which are more volatile.
—Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
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Measure them as the U.S. does and today's data are predicted to show core inflation far higher, at 5% for June.
—James MacKintosh, WSJ, 12 July 2023
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Some economists have suggested that if those measures start to fall and reduce core inflation, the Fed might end up keeping its key rate unchanged for the rest of the year.
—Christopher Rugaber, ajc, 14 June 2023
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The stubbornness of the price hike data held true for a separate key metric, core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
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Plus, economists pointed to core inflation readings averaged over the past three and six months to tease out more recent trends.
—Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
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Compared with a year ago, core inflation was still a relatively high 4.8 percent, though down sharply from 5.3 percent in May.
—Christopher Rugaber, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
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The trade disruption could add as much as 0.5% to core inflation, which excludes volatile fuel and food prices, Oxford Economics said.
—David McHugh, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
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More concerning was core inflation, which strips out food and energy.
—Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023
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Central bankers tend to more closely monitor a measure of core inflation that strips out volatile food and fuel prices to give a clearer sense of the underlying price trend.
—Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
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Japan’s core inflation, which excludes fresh food products, rose 3.1% in July, following a 3.3% increase in June.
—Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2023
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And compared with a year earlier, core inflation was up 4.7% in January, versus a 4.6% year-over-year uptick in December.
—Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
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Prices of non-energy industrial goods, a measure of core inflation, fell for the first time since January.
—Tom Rees, Fortune, 19 July 2023
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More worryingly, core inflation — a measure that strips out volatile food and energy prices — ticked up to 5.7% in March from 5.6% in February, reaching a new record high.
—Julia Horowitz, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
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In January, though, hopes of disinflation were dashed as new data showed jobs growth and core inflation rising.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2023
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Yet excluding the volatile energy and food components, core inflation fell to 4.3% in August from 4.7% in July.
—Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
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When volatile food and energy costs are removed from the overall inflation rate, called core inflation, San Diego County had a 0.8 percent rise in the two-month period.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023
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On a monthly basis, core inflation was flat, also unchanged from April, while economists had forecast a 0.3% rise.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 13 June 2024
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And core inflation, which accounts for prices not including energy and food, is expected to be up 4.1% from September of last year.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2023
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Overall, core inflation has generally trended down over the past 12 months, in evidence that the Fed’s tightening is starting to pay off.
—Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 June 2024
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