How to Use price index in a Sentence

price index

noun
  • Over the last two decades, the price index for tuition and fees has increased 172%.
    Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • The Case-Shiller home price index peaked in August when prices rose 19.8 percent year-over-year that month.
    Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • The name of this new price index refers to its inspiration: the Vimes Boots Index.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Black Book found that the price index for them has been mostly steadily climbing since the spring, with a bit of a plateau in the late summer.
    Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Excluding food and energy, the price index was up 0.1% in the month.
    Reade Pickert, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The core price index, which excludes volatile items such as food and energy, rose 4.6%.
    William A. Galston, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The price index for used tractors at Richie Bros. is up by 19 percent since last year, Ackley said.
    NBC News, 14 Oct. 2021
  • What’s your take on the CPI [consumer-price index] report from this morning?
    WSJ, 12 Jan. 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
  • As per the report, the price index for gasoline dropped 3.8% in June, following a 3.6% decrease in May.
    Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 11 July 2024
  • The core price index, which excludes volatile energy and food prices, rose 0.5% over the last month—down from 0.6% one month prior.
    Jonathan Ponciano, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • 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 has been at 10 percent year-over-year.
    Jon Hartley, National Review, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The two categories that had the largest impact on the rising price index were food at 8.8% and energy at 6.9%.
    Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The stock market stopped trading after a sharp drop in the benchmark share price index on Monday.
    New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The producer-price index fell in August and July from the prior months.
    Austen Hufford, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The national Case-Shiller home price index peaked in August when prices rose 19.8 percent year-over-year that month.
    From Staff and Wire Reports, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The producer price index jumped 0.7 percent on a monthly basis, the most since June.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 17 Feb. 2023
  • In producing the new plan, officials used a broader price index than the one that had relied only on the poor.
    New York Times, 15 Aug. 2021
  • On a monthly basis, the core PCE price index that strips out the more volatile food and energy categories, rose 0.3%.
    John Towfighi, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Year-over-year, China’s producer price index (PPI) increased 10.7%, the fastest pace on record.
    Frank Holmes, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Inflation has already hit a 13-year high in the U.S., and September’s consumer-price index climbed 5.4% from a year ago.
    Peter Schwartz, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The price index covers consumers in this core city and the surrounding urban areas.
    Bryan Mena, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2022
  • China’s consumer-price index rose just 2.5% on-year in August.
    Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022
  • On a month-to-month basis, the producer price index increased by 0.2 percentage points, more than expected.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024

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