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  2. United States Consumer Price Index - Wikipedia

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    Core CPI (blue) is less volatile than the full CPI-U (red), shown here as the annual percentage change, 1983–2021. A Core CPI index is a CPI that excludes goods with high price volatility, typically food and energy, so as to gauge a more underlying, widespread, or fundamental inflation that affects broader sets of items. More specifically ...

  3. U.S. Producer Price Index - Wikipedia

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    This is due to the different definition and uses of the two indices. A primary use of the PPI is to deflate revenue streams in order to measure real growth in output. A primary use of the CPI is to adjust income and expenditure streams for changes in the cost of living. Because of these differences, each uses prices from a different set of ...

  4. Consumer price index - Wikipedia

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    A CPI is a statistical estimate constructed using the prices of a sample of representative items whose prices are collected periodically. Sub-indices and sub-sub-indices can be computed for different categories and sub-categories of goods and services, which are combined to produce the overall index with weights reflecting their shares in the total of the consumer expenditures covered by the ...

  5. Why the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is Important - AOL

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    The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an economic term you've probably heard before but may not know much about. Broadly speaking, the CPI measures the price of consumer goods and how they're trending.

  6. What is the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and why is it useful?

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    The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), covers approximately 29 percent of the U.S. population. This index is used predominantly for adjusting Social Security ...

  7. List of business and finance abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    PI or PII – Professional Indemnity (insurance coverage) PII – Personally identifiable information; pip – Percentage in point or Periodic Investment Plan\ PM – Portfolio manager; PMAC – Period Moving Average Cost; PO – Profit Objective or Purchase Order; POA – Plan Of Action; POS – Point of sale; PP&E – Property, plant, and ...

  8. Inflation - Wikipedia

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    The consumer price index, for example, uses data collected by surveying households to determine what proportion of the typical consumer's overall spending is spent on specific goods and services, and weights the average prices of those items accordingly. Those weighted average prices are combined to calculate the overall price.

  9. Purchasing power parity - Wikipedia

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    Consumer price index (CPI) and purchasing power parity (PPP) conversion factors share conceptual similarities. [31] The CPI measures differences in levels of prices of goods and services over time within a country, whereas PPPs measure the change in levels of prices across regions within a country.