How to Use price index in a Sentence

price index

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  • In May, the food price index increased 10.1 percent compared to the same time last year.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 10 June 2022
  • Looking at month-to-month data, the PCE price index rose by 0.3%.
    — Martha C. White For Cnn Business, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
  • In fact, the Case-Schiller home price index recently ticked up.
    — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2023
  • On a month-to-month basis, the wholesale price index fell by a tenth of a percentage point.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Excluding food and energy, the price index was up 0.1% in the month.
    — Reade Pickert, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Wall Street is betting the producer price index, or PPI, will slow as well.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 9 Oct. 2022
  • By some measures, U.S. home price indexes are at all-time highs.
    — Marley Jay, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The price index for the Midwest, including Michigan, rose 8.1% for the 12 months through August.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The two categories that had the largest impact on the rising price index were food at 8.8% and energy at 6.9%.
    — Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The stock market stopped trading after a sharp drop in the benchmark share price index on Monday.
    — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The producer-price index fell in August and July from the prior months.
    — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The producer price index jumped 0.7 percent on a monthly basis, the most since June.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 17 Feb. 2023
  • On a monthly basis, the core PCE price index that strips out the more volatile food and energy categories, rose 0.3%.
    — John Towfighi, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
  • China’s consumer-price index rose just 2.5% on-year in August.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The producer price index, which gauges wholesale inflation, rose to 1% from 0.8% the month before.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Consumer price index, all items, change from one year earlier.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 11 May 2022
  • The most likely explanation for the disconnect is simply that these price declines will show up in the core price index (CPI) over the coming months.
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The leading home price index estimates that housing prices rose nearly 19 percent last year, the highest jump in 34 years.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • But October’s wholesale price index presents one more sign that US inflation has already peaked and is on its way back down.
    — Quartz, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Source: My trusty spreadsheet’s reviewed the April edition of CoreLogic’s state-by-state price indexes, which look 12 months ahead and 12 months back.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 6 June 2024
  • The producer price index, which measures the prices businesses pay for goods and services before they are sold to consumers, reached a high of 11.7 percent last spring.
    — Talmon Joseph Smith and Joe Rennison, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
  • The Labor Department said October's energy price index was up 1.8% month-to-month and nearly 18% over the past year.
    — David Uberti, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In October, that trend continued with goods prices dropping 0.3% during the month, according to the PCE price index.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Japan’s producer price index data showed a 0.2% increase from a year ago, while remaining flat on-month.
    — Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Japan’s core consumer-price index, which excludes fresh food but includes energy, was up 0.8% from a year earlier in March—the highest in more than two years.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 2 May 2022
  • Last Thursday’s producer price index, which measures wholesale prices, showed that inflation came in at just 0.1% for the year ending in June.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 17 July 2023
  • The movement is a bit of a rally in the market, which has been trending toward bear territory for two months, that comes days before the U.S. consumer-price index release.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 6 June 2022
  • China’s first consumer price index, producer price index and trade figures of 2023 are set to be released next week, which will show the full extent of the country’s rebound.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The producer price index, which measures prices received by businesses and suppliers for their goods and services, is not as widely known as the CPI.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024
  • One more set of inflation data — the personal consumption expenditures price index — is due before the Fed meets at the end of the month, when investors are hoping to get hints that rate cuts could begin in the coming months.
    — Alex Harring,sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 17 July 2024

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