How to Use headline inflation in a Sentence

headline inflation

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  • That marks the ninth-straight month that headline inflation has slowed.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The rise in gas prices was the main reason headline inflation heated up in August.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
  • If shelter costs were to move lower, headline inflation may cool as a result.
    — Simon Moore, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Inflation swaps are pricing in a 3.2% advance in headline inflation in July from a year ago and a 3.6% gain in August.
    — Elena Popina, Fortune, 30 July 2023
  • The drop in headline inflation is welcome news for an economy wracked by soaring prices for several years.
    — Joseph Lawler, Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Over the past year, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates and sold balance-sheet assets in order to get headline inflation down.
    — Ryan Ellis, National Review, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Even so, headline inflation is running more than double the Fed’s 2% target, with airline fares feeding into that.
    — Bob Fernandez, WSJ, 8 May 2023
  • Economists at the firm indicate the gap between rent inflation and headline inflation, 3.1%, is at its highest in over six decades.
    — Wsj Pro, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2023
  • While year-over-year headline inflation fell to 4% in May, core inflation remained higher than most economists would like, at 5.3%.
    — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 13 June 2023
  • Now, with oil prices surging once again, headline inflation could remain elevated for longer or even rise.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 8 Apr. 2023
  • While the headline inflation rate has been tamed, economic changes over the past several years ensure that daily life remains expensive for many.
    — Craig Reid, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Given that the headline inflation rate in November was 3.1%, that means that workers are better able to absorb current price increases.
    — Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Anticipation in the days before the release of the data focused, rightfully, on a higher headline inflation print due to ...
    — Cale Clingenpeel, National Review, 10 Apr. 2024
  • This week, the European Commission lowered its outlook for headline inflation as a result.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Falling gas prices have helped contain headline inflation readings.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 18 July 2023
  • In Europe and the United States, headline inflation rates have been falling this year, but this has brought only limited comfort to policymakers.
    — Eshe Nelson, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2023
  • Since the peak, the sharp decline in the headline inflation rate has benefitted from the year-over-year declines in commodity prices, particularly the decline in energy prices.
    — Bill Stone, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Furman and other economists said the headline inflation has come down dramatically, which is good news.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 14 June 2023
  • South Korea’s headline inflation eased for a fourth consecutive month in May to hit a 19-month low, justifying the central bank’s pause in policy tightening aimed at curbing price growth.
    — Kwanwoo Jun, WSJ, 1 June 2023
  • After a costly year of inaction in which headline inflation surged to 40-year highs, the Fed finally made a U-turn almost exactly a year ago and began to raise interest rates in a bid to slow the economy and bring inflation down.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The robust labor market remains the primary risk to the timeliness of headline inflation returning to near the 2% target rate and the upside risk to the number of Federal Reserve hikes currently priced into the market.
    — Bill Stone, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • South Korea’s headline inflation accelerated at a faster-than-expected pace to a seven-month high in October, staying well above the central bank’s target.
    — Kwanwoo Jun, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
  • That contributed to more than half of the monthly headline inflation increase, the Labor Department said in its latest consumer-price report—which came in hotter than economists expected.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Shelter, which includes rents, rose 8%, continuing to put upward pressure on headline inflation.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
  • Many travel costs are still rising faster than headline inflation, said Sally French, a travel expert at the personal finance company NerdWallet.
    — Harriet Baskas, NBC News, 14 May 2023
  • The report showed headline inflation of 3.1% in January, higher than economists’ consensus estimates of 2.9%.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The pain hitting Singapore dining venues is an example of how soaring prices can weave persistent and even structural changes into an economy that can be difficult or impossible to reverse, even after headline inflation has abated.
    — Michelle Jamrisko, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2023
  • South Korea’s headline inflation accelerated at a faster-than-expected pace in September.
    — Kwanwoo Jun, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Expectations can worsen, the longer inflation remains elevated, so the upward pressure from higher gas prices on headline inflation can make Americans more pessimistic about inflation.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
  • December headline inflation was above consensus, core inflation probably isn’t declining fast enough and the Federal Reserve’s December minutes didn’t mention rate cuts.
    — WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024

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