How to Use price index in a Sentence

price index

noun

• In May, the food price index increased 10.1 percent compared to the same time last year.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 10 June 2022
• Looking at month-to-month data, the PCE price index rose by 0.3%.
  — Martha C. White For Cnn Business, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
• In fact, the Case-Schiller home price index recently ticked up.
  — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2023
• On a month-to-month basis, the wholesale price index fell by a tenth of a percentage point.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• Excluding food and energy, the price index was up 0.1% in the month.
  — Reade Pickert, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2022
• Wall Street is betting the producer price index, or PPI, will slow as well.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 9 Oct. 2022
• By some measures, U.S. home price indexes are at all-time highs.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2023
• The price index for the Midwest, including Michigan, rose 8.1% for the 12 months through August.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2022
• The producer-price index fell in August and July from the prior months.
  — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2022
• The producer price index jumped 0.7 percent on a monthly basis, the most since June.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 17 Feb. 2023
• China’s consumer-price index rose just 2.5% on-year in August.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022
• The producer price index, which gauges wholesale inflation, rose to 1% from 0.8% the month before.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2024
• The most likely explanation for the disconnect is simply that these price declines will show up in the core price index (CPI) over the coming months.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 13 Sep. 2022
• But October’s wholesale price index presents one more sign that US inflation has already peaked and is on its way back down.
  — Quartz, 15 Nov. 2022
• The producer price index, which measures the prices businesses pay for goods and services before they are sold to consumers, reached a high of 11.7 percent last spring.
  — Talmon Joseph Smith and Joe Rennison, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
• The Labor Department said October's energy price index was up 1.8% month-to-month and nearly 18% over the past year.
  — David Uberti, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• In October, that trend continued with goods prices dropping 0.3% during the month, according to the PCE price index.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2023
• Japan’s producer price index data showed a 0.2% increase from a year ago, while remaining flat on-month.
  — Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2024
• Last Thursday’s producer price index, which measures wholesale prices, showed that inflation came in at just 0.1% for the year ending in June.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 17 July 2023
• The movement is a bit of a rally in the market, which has been trending toward bear territory for two months, that comes days before the U.S. consumer-price index release.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 6 June 2022
• China’s first consumer price index, producer price index and trade figures of 2023 are set to be released next week, which will show the full extent of the country’s rebound.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• In May, the producer’s price index (PPI), which measures wholesale prices for businesses, rose at a near-record 10.8% annual rate.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 2 July 2022
• According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the gas-price index fell 7.7% in July, which helped offset price increases in core items such as food.
  — Sara Edwards, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2022
• In July, month-on-month average sales prices fell for the first time since January 2019, according to a national home-price index.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2022
• Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expect the producer price index, due out at 8:30 a.m.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 11 Aug. 2023
• When compared to last year, September also saw an 8.5% price increase in the producer price index, which measures price change from the perspective of the seller.
  — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 7 Nov. 2022
• The wholesale price index hit a record high of 15.1%, the outcome of rising prices of vegetables, fruits, milk, manufacturing, fuel, and power.
  — Mitali Mukherjee, Quartz, 19 May 2022
• Even after stripping out food and fuel prices, both of which jump around a lot, the price index climbed 4.7 percent over the year through last month — also a pickup, and more than expected in a Bloomberg survey of economists.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• May's producer price index is due out Wednesday morning.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 14 June 2023
• Restaurants have been hit hard by inflation—the price of food, particularly meat, has risen more than the over-all consumer-price index—and barbecue restaurants are among the hardest hit of all.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 19 July 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024