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  2. United States Consumer Price Index - Wikipedia

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    The United States Consumer Price Index ( CPI) is a family of various consumer price indices published monthly by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The most commonly used indices are the CPI-U and the CPI-W, though many alternative versions exist for different uses. For example, the CPI-U is the most popularly cited measure of ...

  3. Consumer price index - Wikipedia

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    A consumer price index ( CPI) is a price index, the price of a weighted average market basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households. Changes in measured CPI track changes in prices over time. [1] The CPI is calculated by using a representative basket of goods and services. The basket is updated periodically to reflect changes ...

  4. Collateral protection insurance - Wikipedia

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    Collateral Protection Insurance, or CPI, insures property held as collateral for loans made by lending institutions. CPI, also known as force-placed insurance and lender placed insurance, may be classified as single-interest insurance if it protects the interest of the lender, a single party, or as dual-interest insurance coverage if it protects the interest of both the lender and the borrower.

  5. What is the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and why is it useful?

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    Consumer Price Index for Americans 62 years of age and older (R-CPI-E): This index re-weights prices from the CPI-U data to track spending for households with at least one consumer age 62 or older ...

  6. Inflation: Consumer prices in May rose at slowest annual rate ...

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    The Consumer Price Index (CPI) revealed headline inflation rose 0.1% over last month and 4% over the prior year in May, a slowdown from April's 0.4% month-over-month increase and 4.9% annual gain.

  7. Inflation pressures ease in April as consumer prices rise at ...

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    US consumer price increases cooled during the month of April, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Wednesday morning. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.3% ...

  8. Consumer price index by country - Wikipedia

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    India. Wholesale Price Index (WPI) WPI first published in 1902, and was one of the more economic indicators available to policy makers until it was replaced by most developed countries by the Consumer Price Index in the 1970s. WPI is the index that is used to measure the change in the average price level of goods traded in wholesale market.

  9. Cost-of-living index - Wikipedia

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    The United States Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a price index that is based on the idea of a cost-of-living index. The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) explains the differences: The CPI frequently is called a cost-of-living index, but it differs in important ways from a complete cost-of-living measure.