Headline CPI was firm in December at +0.4% MoM, boosted by strong food and energy prices. This has shown an accelerating ...
The Cleveland Federal Reserve produces something called the median CPI, which measures the inflation rate of the component whose expenditure weight is in the 50th percentile of price changes ...
PPI components provide about 30% of the weight of the core PCE price index, while the CPI provides about 70%. Based on the PPI details, Samuel Tombs, chief U.S. economist at Pantheon ...
Purchases of motor vehicles are included in transportation; however, since these retail purchases are commonly made with cheques or through financing, mapping the weights for that CPI component is ...