Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...identical increases in the Labor Department's Producer Price Index mean that prices one stop short of the retail level are 12.6 percent higher, on an annual rate, than at the start...
After the January inflation report, which included a 0.6 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index, the largest in two years, many economists dismissed it as at least a partial aberration and predicted only a moderate 0.4 climb in February...
...overall February increase left the Producer Price Index for finished goods at 111.7, meaning that a hypothetical selection of goods costing $100 in 1982 would have cost $111.70 last month. That was up 70 cents from January and $5.60, or 5.3 percent, from February...
...University's tuition increases over the past two years even exceed the Higher Education Price Index, which tracks the prices of goods and services that colleges and universities purchase. According to D. Kent Halstead of the Washington-based Research Associates, which calculates the HEPI, these costs rose by nearly 5 percent last year, and will hover around 3 to 4 percent during the next several years...
Interest rates jumped and the stock market tumbled after the Consumer Price Index recorded its largest monthly increase in two years. The ominous trend casts a spotlight on the quiet but crucial duel between the White House and the Federal Reserve Board over the direction of U.S. economic policy. -- TV commercials feature a lively new cast of characters: older people...