The consumer price index rose by only 0.4 percent in 2015 so there will be no cost - of - living adjustment to Social Security checks this year.
For all of 2017,
the consumer price index rose a manageable 2.1 percent.
Excluding volatile food and energy prices, the so - called core
consumer price index rose 0.2 percent, the same as in the previous two months, the Labor Department says Tuesday.
Over the last year
the consumer price index rose 2.2 percent, driven largely by energy costs.
According to Statistics Canada,
the consumer price index rose at an annual pace of 2.7 per cent in July, down from a 3.1 - per cent increase for June.
The consumer price index rose 0.2 % month over month in April, putting it at 2.5 % year over year.
While
the Consumer Price Index rose 57 percent between 1978 - 79 and 1982 - 83, the council's policy - analysis and research division reports, the average Pell Grant rose by 13 percent, from $ 921 to $ 1,023.
The last time
the consumer price index rose in double digits was 1981's 10.3 percent gain.
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the median
Consumer Price Index rose 0.2 % (2.2 % annualized rate) in November.
While
the Consumer Price Index rose 2.9 % last month, the Labour Force Survey indicates that average hourly wages rose only 2.4 %.
On Wednesday the Labor Department reported that
the consumer price index rose a higher than expected 0.5 % in January, 2.1 % compared to the year - earlier period.
The Consumer Price Index rose by 0.9 per cent in the March quarter to be 2.0 per cent higher over the year (Table 15).
China's producer price index jumped 3.3 percent on - year in November, the fastest pace in five years, while
the consumer price index rose 2.3 percent on - year.
Data from China's National Bureau of Statistics showed
the consumer price index rose 3.2 percent in February from a year ago, versus expectations of a 3.0 percent rise, while annual industrial production (IP) growth in January and February combined at 9.9 percent was the lowest since October 2012 - the starting point of China's nascent economic recovery.
This week, Germany's business pages have been full of little warnings about the Return of Inflation, the biggest bogeyman in the Teutonic economic lexicon, all because the annual
consumer price index rose to its highest level in over three years in December, a shocking 1.7 %.
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consumer price index rose 2.5 percent in September from a year earlier, the statistics office said on Wednesday.
China's core
consumer price index rose 2.0 percent in March, down from 2.5 percent in February, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said.
On the economic front, the U.S.
consumer price index rose a slight 0.3 per cent in December, translating into an annualized rate of 1.5 per cent.
Statistics Canada's
Consumer Price Index rose one per cent in June from a year earlier, as cheaper gasoline allowed Canadians to stretch their paycheques, the agency reported July 21.
But inflation is tame in many countries and data out earlier this week showed the U.S.
consumer price index rising at an annual rate of only 1.2 per cent, significantly below the Fed's inflation target of two per cent.
Inflation appears to be relatively modest for now, with
the Consumer Price Index rising 2.9 percent this year.
Not exact matches
The June increase in the
consumer price index is not expected to have a significant impact on markets, as economists had accurately predicted the
rise.
The
consumer price index (CPI), released on Friday, showed the cost of living in America
rising only 1.6 percent compared to the same month last year, significantly down from the most recent high of 2.8 percent in February and below the Fed's target of 2 percent.
The flat growth in the core
consumer price index (CPI), which includes oil products but excludes volatile fresh food
prices, matched a median market forecast and followed a 0.1 %
rise in December, data from the Internal Affairs Ministry showed on Friday.
The
consumer price index (CPI)
rose 1.3 % in August from a year earlier, compared with a 1.8 % increase in July, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.
Meanwhile, the Labor Department is expected to report that U.S. producer
prices rose 0.3 % last month, which is slightly higher than the previous month's growth, and the
consumer price index also likely improved by 0.3 % in May.
The
consumer price index (CPI)
rose 2.1 % in October from a year earlier, compared with a 1.9 % increase in September, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Wednesday.
Japan reported its
consumer price index, excluding fresh food and energy,
rose half a percent in the 12 months through March.
And the
Consumer Price Index did
rise more than expected in the latest data, released on Wednesday, Feb. 14.
Ahead of the Fed's announcement, the Labor Department released its latest reading of the
Consumer Price Index, which
rose 0.5 % in November from a year earlier.
In those 63 years, an item in the overall
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
rose from $ 1 to $ 10 and gas
rose from $ 1 to $ 16.10.
The
consumer price index (CPI)
rose 1.6 percent from the year - ago period, in line with a Reuters forecast and unchanged from September.
On Friday the Labor Department announced that the core
consumer price index (CPI)-- which strips out volatile food and energy costs —
rose 2.3 % over the past 12 months, up from 1.8 % one year ago.
Last week, the Labor Department said the U.S.
consumer price index — a widely followed inflation metric —
rose 0.5 percent last month, topping a Reuters estimate of 0.3 percent.
The Commerce Department said on Thursday
consumer prices as measured by the personal consumption expenditures (PCE)
price index,
rose 0.4 percent.
The
Consumer Price Index, our typical measure for inflation, over that period only
rose by 121 percent.
The
Consumer Price Index, put out by the Department of Labor,
rose steadily before flattening out, as oil
prices leveled off heading into summer.
(Valeant's
prices have
risen 2 % as a whole so far this year, lower than the 2.5 % increase in the
Consumer Price Index, Papa said.)
The December quarter
consumer price index showed a
rise of 0.9 per cent in the quarter, for an annual figure of 3 per cent (Graph 13).
There exists a number of
indices that look at the
price of housing by deflating the nominal dollar
price of a house by the
consumer price index (CPI) to get an idea of how fast housing
prices are
rising relative to the general
rise in
prices of
consumer goods.
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consumer price index climbed 1.87 percent month - on - month, the Turkish Statistical Institute said, above a Reuters poll forecast of 1.6 percent, for a
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Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a notoriously flawed measure of inflation.
The latest data show Japan's core
consumer price index (excluding fresh food)
rose 1.0 % year - on - year in February, accelerating from a gain of 0.9 % in January.
Social Security benefits increase automatically each year based on the
rise in the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI - W), from the third quarter of the prior year to the corresponding period of the current year.
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price will go up due to understated inflation and a
rising Consumer Price Index (
Price Index (CPI).
One option proposed in a new Government Green Paper would see firms linking annual
rises to the
consumer price index measure of inflation, rather than the higher retail
price index
TIPS are safer than cash or Treasury bills, because their payout
rises with the
consumer price index.