Sentences with phrase «widely followed metric»

One widely followed metric, Yale finance professor Robert Shiller's cyclically adjusted P / E ratio, recently hovered around 31 times earnings, or nearly twice its average of 17 or so since the early 1880s.

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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.

Several metrics, such as the price - to - earnings ratio (P / E), are widely followed.