Sentences with phrase «headline consumer price»

«Tuesday's Consumer Price Index report indicated inflation may be cooling down; headline consumer price inflation was 2.2 percent year - over-year in February,» Kiefer says.

A recent pullback in headline consumer price inflation across developed economies has challenged the notion of steady, if unspectacular, increases in inflation from depressed levels.

A supermarket food price war and lower petrol price inflation are expected to have brought the headline consumer price index measure of inflation down for the sixth month running in March.

The dollar fell across the board as traders responded to news the headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) printed +0.2 % month - over-month compared to last month's +0.5 % reading.

Our econometric model projects that headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation will reach 2.2 % by the fourth quarter of 2016, significantly above the US Federal Reserve's (Fed's) and the market's expectations.

Over the month, headline consumer price growth was 0.5 percent.

Falling oil prices and the strong U.S. dollar have dampened headline consumer price index (CPI) inflation, but the recent core CPI print suggests a clear firming in inflationary conditions.

A recent pullback in headline consumer price inflation across developed economies has challenged the notion of steady, if unspectacular, increases in inflation from depressed levels.

All this because the arm - waving following the summer's run to $ 147 - a-barrel crude — which briefly pushed the headline consumer price index above 5 % — scared the Fed into wanting to look tough on inflation.

The consensus forecast of Wall Street economists polled by MarketWatch is for headline consumer prices to rise 0.5 % in May.

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Consumer price indexes told a similar story, with annual core and headline rates for March declining to 2.0 % and 2.4 %, respectively.

In headline terms, consumer prices rose by 0.6 per cent in the June quarter to be 0.7 per cent higher than a year earlier.

Firmer consumer prices at both the headline and core level, buoyant manufacturing output and upbeat regional Fed manufacturing surveys — particularly the Philadelphia Fed's manufacturing index — which soared to a 33 - year high — added to investor optimism.

Not only did headline inflation turn negative again (at -0.2 %), but core inflation unexpectedly fell to 0.7 % y - o - y, a 10 - month low, raising new concerns over the underlying trend in consumer prices.

Core inflation dropped while headline inflation increased in the Bureau of Labor Statistics» (BLS) Consumer Price Index (CPI) for September.

The English teacher in me wants to vomit at the thought of headlines offering swimsuits at half price splashed throughout The Grapes of Wrath, but the penny - pinching consumer in me is starting to think that Amazon is on to something huge.

Last week Canadian consumer price index made a lot of headlines, by reaching 2.3 % in May 2014.

Which brings us to the second, perhaps slightly heretical point: Maybe pricing carbon, directly raising energy costs for average consumers, just isn't that popular as a headline policy.

«The donkey goes on to the ice until it breaks» — German proverb [image credit: evwind.es] Debatable claim in the headline, but the German «energy transition» has certainly hurt electricity consumers as prices have shot up in the last decade, with fortunes being wasted on vain attempts to tweak the climate system.