How to Use price index in a Sentence

price index

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  • 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
  • Friday's price index numbers put us on the right track for that.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 1 May 2021
  • The current price index is based on the revenues rather than the volume of usage.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2020
  • In fact, the Case-Schiller home price index recently ticked up.
    — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2023
  • From the same month one year ago, the PCE price index increased 2.4%, a tick up from October.
    — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • In the 12 months through September, the PCE price index increased 2.1%.
    — Lucia Mutikani, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The food price index is up 2.2 percent versus last year.
    — NBC News, 29 May 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 Case-Shiller home price index uses repeat sales of the same homes to measure changes in values across the market.
    — Elliot Njus, OregonLive.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Those figures were based on the consumer-price index increase since the last time the salaries were adjusted in 2002.
    — Ryan Randazzo, azcentral, 6 Mar. 2018
  • What’s your take on the CPI [consumer-price index] report from this morning?
    — WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The gain in the overall PCE price index in May followed a 0.6% increase a month earlier.
    — Fortune, 25 June 2021
  • Wall Street is betting the producer price index, or PPI, will slow as well.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 9 Oct. 2022
  • CoinDesk has a Bitcoin price index; Bitcoincharts.com has a range of data.
    — Bloomberg.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Home prices: The housing market hits the spotlight Tuesday with the release of the latest Case-Shiller home price index.
    — David Lazarus, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
  • The producer price index has been at 10 percent year-over-year.
    — Jon Hartley, National Review, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Tuesday’s producer price index report and Wednesday’s consumer price index reading both eased investor concerns and drove stocks higher after what had been a rocky start to 2025.
    — Brian Evans, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Its preferred inflation gauge, known as the personal consumption expenditures price index, is coming in lower — and closer to the Fed’s target — than the higher-profile consumer price index.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024

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