Resources
BNET Business Dictionary
- Consumer Price Index
- an index of the prices of goods and services that consumers purchase, used to measure the cost of living or the rate of inflation in...
- Consumer Price Index definition on BNET »
BNET Resources
- sort by:
- Relevance
- Date
- Popularity
- Retail Trade Lifts 0.7% in May
- Consumers spent $20.2 billion on shopping May, resulting in a sharp bounce after four months of slim retail activity.The Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS said retail trade grew by a seasonally adjusted 0.7 per cent in May.Economists had forecast a 0.2 per cent increase.The strong outcome is at odds...
- News items 2008-07-02
- Monetary Policy and Inflation
- This article is about the monetary policies and inflations. It defines the problem with monetary policy, throughout the world, is revealed when one asks the question, "At what level should the Central Bank set interest rates?" The role of central banks was once widely seen as covering a range...
- White papers
- Personal CPI Calculator
- This is a tool to calculate personal Consumer Price Index CPI. User can find out find personal inflation rate by estimating what percentage of the budget one actually spends in each category. The calculated number is the CPI. A higher number could help explain the hole in the pocket.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Long-Run Determinants of Inflation Differentials in a Monetary Union
- This paper analyzes the long-run determinants of inflation differentials in a monetary union. First, it aims at establishing some stylized facts relating the regional dispersion in headline inflation rates in the euro area as well as in the main components of the consumer price index. It finds that a relatively...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Difference between Inflation and the Consumer Price Index
- Many people are confused by the difference between Inflation and the Consumer Price Index. The Consumer Price Index is as its name implies an index, or “a number used to measure change. The article explains that price inflation is the percentage increase in the price of the basket of products...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- How Do I Calculate the Inflation Rate?
- The following article explains how to calculate the current inflation rate. The Formula for Calculating Inflation. The formula for calculating the Inflation Rate using the Consumer Price Index is relatively simple. Every month the Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS surveys prices and generates the current Consumer Price Index CPI....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Employees Pay More As Health Costs Rise
- The consumer price index is beginning to show a slowing in the rate of price increases, overall spending on health care by employers continues to climb as aging Americans use more medical services. You’ll find article talking about the big shift of health-care costs from employers to employees, which comes...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Indicator Models of Core Inflation for Canada
- This paper tests a wide range of observable variables for their leading-indicator properties with respect to core inflation, including: commodity prices, cost indicators, measures of capacity pressures in labour and product markets, and components of the consumer price index CPI itself. The results show that several indicator models generate lower...
- White papers 1999-09-01
Additional Resources
- Intelliun Streamlines Web Content Activities for the Greater Dallas Chamber
- Intelliun Implemented a New Web Service to Automate the Collection and Aggregation of Key Economic Indicators Offered by the Chamber DALLAS -- Intelliun Corporation, working with the Greater Dallas Chamber developed a new web service that automates the activities of collecting and aggregating industry and economic indicators presented...
- Articles 2008-06-25
- Consumer confidence plummets
- A slowing economy and rising prices have consumers deeply worried about the future. Consumer confidence is at a 16-year low, the New York-based Conference Board reported Tuesday. Its index of consumer expectations -- the forward-looking part of the monthly survey -- fell to its lowest level...
- Articles 2008-06-25
- U.S. consumers gloomy
- NEW YORK -- U.S. consumers are the gloomiest they've been since the tail end of the last prolonged recession: Inflation, sinking home values and soaring gas prices have pushed confidence to the lowest level since 1992. Consumers' view of the economic future has never been lower, raising...
- Articles 2008-06-25
- Luxury Institute Survey: Wealthy U.S. Consumers Rate the Most Prestigious Luxury Appliance Brands: La Cornue, Bertazzoni and Viking
- High net-worth consumers rated La Cornue themost prestigious luxury appliance brand in the 2008 Luxury Brand StatusIndex LBSI survey from the independent New York City-based LuxuryInstitute ( www.LuxuryInstitute.com ). Respondents who would recommend LaCornue say, "It is the Rolls-Royce of appliances," "their stoves aregorgeous," and are "outstanding and unique." Bertazzoni...
- Articles 2008-06-25
- Fed stymied on rates by price rises and faltering economy
- The Federal Reserve began its two-day meeting to decide on the next move for US interest rates, amid some of the worst consumer confidence and house-price data on record. But, while the deteriorating economy might tempt members of the Federal Open Market Committee to propose a rate...
- Articles 2008-06-25
- Wall Street gloom thickens as Fed set to meet
- NEW YORK AFP — US shares stumbled Tuesday as a bleak outlook from delivery giant UPS and news that home prices are still falling darkened the mood as traders girded for a Federal Reserve meeting. A survey showing a plunge in US consumer confidence added to market fears...
- Articles 2008-06-24
- Gloom deepens in Europe as inflation makes rate cut unlikely
- FRANKFURT AFP — German consumers and bosses share serious worries about the economy but record eurozone inflation will likely prevent policymakers from easing their concerns with interest rate cuts. "German consumers have now really thrown in the towel," UniCredit Markets analyst Andreas Rees said Tuesday after the GfK...
- Articles 2008-06-24
- Dollar weakens on downbeat economic news
- NEW YORK AFP — The dollar weakened against other major currencies Tuesday in the face of downbeat economic news on US consumer confidence and the housing market, and as the US central bank was expected to keep interest rates unchanged. The subdued economic readings weighed on the dollar...
- Articles 2008-06-24
- German consumer confidence hit by high energy prices: survey
- FRANKFURT AFP — German consumer confidence has fallen to a 30-month low because climbing energy prices have eaten away at household purchasing power, a study by the GfK research institute showed on Tuesday. The latest barometer of consumer sentiment in Europe's biggest economy slipped to 3.9 points from...
- Articles 2008-06-23
- Shoppers advised to bargain-hunt as price inflation soars
- COST OF LIVING Consumer prices jumped sharply last month, the Government has confirmed. In May the annual rate of price inflation rose by 0.3 percentage points to 3.3 per cent, the highest level for more than a decade. The increase was...
- Articles 2008-06-22
- Area manufacturing posts 7th straight monthly dip
- Economic woes for manufacturers in the Philadelphia region continued this month, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported yesterday. Just like consumers, manufacturers are being hammered by higher costs, according to the bank's monthly Business Outlook Survey. The survey's index of prices paid by area manufacturers this month for raw...
- Articles 2008-06-20
- The dragon of inflation breathes fire again
- LEADING ARTICLE THE ECONOMY The tale the Chancellor will have to tell in his Mansion House speech this evening will be far from the triumphal story that delighted City audiences in the years of plenty. Where Gordon Brown boasted of economic dynamism that...
- Articles 2008-06-18
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
Content Types
Premier Vendor Content Whitepapers, webcasts & resources from our Power Center Sponsors
