How to Use headline inflation in a Sentence

headline inflation

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• That marks the ninth-straight month that headline inflation has slowed.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• The headline inflation had come in at 2% in both May and June, in line with the Bank of England’s target rate.
  — Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2024
• The rise in gas prices was the main reason headline inflation heated up in August.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
• If shelter costs were to move lower, headline inflation may cool as a result.
  — Simon Moore, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• Inflation swaps are pricing in a 3.2% advance in headline inflation in July from a year ago and a 3.6% gain in August.
  — Elena Popina, Fortune, 30 July 2023
• The split trading came after the June report for the consumer price index early Thursday showed headline inflation declined last month and is now up about 3% over the past year.
  — Jesse Pound, CNBC, 11 July 2024
• Last month, the overall consumer price index rose 2.9% and the index for urban wage earners matched that headline inflation number.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
• The drop in headline inflation is welcome news for an economy wracked by soaring prices for several years.
  — Joseph Lawler, Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2023
• Over the past year, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates and sold balance-sheet assets in order to get headline inflation down.
  — Ryan Ellis, National Review, 20 Sep. 2023
• The September readings fueled expectations that the headline inflation rate of the euro zone as a whole will reflect a steep drop to below the ECB’s 2% target.
  — Sam Meredith,sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2024
• Even so, headline inflation is running more than double the Fed’s 2% target, with airline fares feeding into that.
  — Bob Fernandez, WSJ, 8 May 2023
• Economists at the firm indicate the gap between rent inflation and headline inflation, 3.1%, is at its highest in over six decades.
  — Wsj Pro, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2023
• While year-over-year headline inflation fell to 4% in May, core inflation remained higher than most economists would like, at 5.3%.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 13 June 2023
• Now, with oil prices surging once again, headline inflation could remain elevated for longer or even rise.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 8 Apr. 2023
• While the headline inflation rate has been tamed, economic changes over the past several years ensure that daily life remains expensive for many.
  — Craig Reid, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Given that the headline inflation rate in November was 3.1%, that means that workers are better able to absorb current price increases.
  — Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
• Anticipation in the days before the release of the data focused, rightfully, on a higher headline inflation print due to ...
  — Cale Clingenpeel, National Review, 10 Apr. 2024
• This week, the European Commission lowered its outlook for headline inflation as a result.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
• Falling gas prices have helped contain headline inflation readings.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 18 July 2023
• In Europe and the United States, headline inflation rates have been falling this year, but this has brought only limited comfort to policymakers.
  — Eshe Nelson, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2023
• Since the peak, the sharp decline in the headline inflation rate has benefitted from the year-over-year declines in commodity prices, particularly the decline in energy prices.
  — Bill Stone, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• Furman and other economists said the headline inflation has come down dramatically, which is good news.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 14 June 2023
• South Korea’s headline inflation eased for a fourth consecutive month in May to hit a 19-month low, justifying the central bank’s pause in policy tightening aimed at curbing price growth.
  — Kwanwoo Jun, WSJ, 1 June 2023
• After a costly year of inaction in which headline inflation surged to 40-year highs, the Fed finally made a U-turn almost exactly a year ago and began to raise interest rates in a bid to slow the economy and bring inflation down.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2023
• The robust labor market remains the primary risk to the timeliness of headline inflation returning to near the 2% target rate and the upside risk to the number of Federal Reserve hikes currently priced into the market.
  — Bill Stone, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• South Korea’s headline inflation accelerated at a faster-than-expected pace to a seven-month high in October, staying well above the central bank’s target.
  — Kwanwoo Jun, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• That contributed to more than half of the monthly headline inflation increase, the Labor Department said in its latest consumer-price report—which came in hotter than economists expected.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
• Shelter, which includes rents, rose 8%, continuing to put upward pressure on headline inflation.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• Many travel costs are still rising faster than headline inflation, said Sally French, a travel expert at the personal finance company NerdWallet.
  — Harriet Baskas, NBC News, 14 May 2023
• The report showed headline inflation of 3.1% in January, higher than economists’ consensus estimates of 2.9%.
  — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024