How to Use price index in a Sentence

price index

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  • Black Book found that the price index for them has been mostly steadily climbing since the spring, with a bit of a plateau in the late summer.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 20 Dec. 2021
  • What’s your take on the CPI [consumer-price index] report from this morning?
    — WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The name of this new price index refers to its inspiration: the Vimes Boots Index.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The core price index, which excludes volatile energy and food prices, rose 0.5% over the last month—down from 0.6% one month prior.
    — Jonathan Ponciano, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The Case-Shiller home price index peaked in August when prices rose 19.8 percent year-over-year that month.
    — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
  • This price index compares the lowest and highest monthly premium amounts in 10 large cities for a 65-year-old man and woman.
    — Steve Vernon, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • On a monthly basis, the price index increased by 0.1%, also landing in line with expectations.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 26 July 2024
  • The national Case-Shiller home price index peaked in August when prices rose 19.8 percent year-over-year that month.
    — From Staff and Wire Reports, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • On the other side is the more perilous wholesale price index, or WPI, which affects manufacturers.
    — Rajrishi Singhal, Quartz, 26 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • As per the report, the price index for gasoline dropped 3.8% in June, following a 3.6% decrease in May.
    — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 11 July 2024
  • 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 producer price index has been at 10 percent year-over-year.
    — Jon Hartley, National Review, 22 Mar. 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
  • The price index covers consumers in this core city and the surrounding urban areas.
    — Bryan Mena, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2022
  • 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

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