This makes sense given it is the same food and energy in the indices that is in the CPI and that energy is the most
volatile component so the more energy, the higher the inflation protection.
Not exact matches
What's more, if we back out the
volatile food and energy
components, to get the
so - called core rate of CPI change, we find that this key number rose only 0.1 % last month.
Meanwhile, the core consumer price index (i.e., the CPI minus the
volatile food and energy
components) has been running at an annual pace of just over 1.7 % or
so the past year.
As referred to above, the heavy rains added
so much weight to the floating roof of an oil storage tank at ExxonMobil's Baytown facility that the roof partially sank, and caused the more
volatile petroleum - based
components — including known and suspected carcinogens and otherwise toxic substances — to evaporate and release harmful air emissions in sufficient quantities to require reports to be submitted to state environmental regulators.
Stripping out those items, the two most
volatile components of GDP,
so - called final sales to domestic purchasers increased at a 2.1 percent rate, compared with the prior estimate of a 1.7 percent pace.