Some indexes aim to sample the market at large ... which has a share price of $200, the price of the index would be $93.33—the average—if the index was not weighted by anything other than ...

One common example is medical spending. The CPI takes into account only what a household spends out of pocket on medical care. The PCE price index records that spending as well and adds what ...

For example, a city dweller who doesn’t own ... adopted PCE [personal consumption expenditures price index] as its primary measure of inflation over CPI.” James Bullard, former president ...

An inflation gauge that is closely watched by the Federal Reserve barely rose last month in a sign that price pressures ...

produced in the U.S. The producer price index, or PPI, is a monthly estimate of the weighted average prices U.S. “producers” (think suppliers, wholesalers, etc.) receive for the products and ...

Inflation , as measured by the producer price index, rose four-tenths of a percentage point to 3% for the year ending in November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday.