Sentences with phrase «consumption expenditures figure»

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The gauge is not the central bank's most closely watched measure — that would be the personal consumption expenditures index — but still could figure into decisions on interest rates.

Inflation as measured by the core personal consumption expenditures price index jumped to 1.5 percent in the first quarter, government figures showed on Thursday, a jump from 0.4 percent the prior quarter.

Personal consumption expenditure (PCE) inflation, meanwhile, rose to 2.2 percent in February, higher than the 2.1 percent reported in January, although the monthly figures slipped to 0.2 from 0.5 percent.

FIGURE 1 shows a noticeable uptick in Core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE), 1 the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) preferred inflation measure, over the last six months.

The figure below plots the mean monthly student loan payment against the average monthly expenditure in each major consumption category.

In this post, I discuss the trend in the figure below: US monthly personal - consumption expenditures (PCE) for food and energy goods and services as a percentage of total household expenditures.