| But the Fed also reacts to recent inflation as gauged by the consumer price index. |
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| The consumer price index suffered its first contraction in 16 years last year, largely due to lower food and clothing prices. |
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| In 2002 the increase in wages was matched by the climb in the consumer price index of 30 percent. |
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| In the present system, benefits after retirement are indexed to the consumer price index. |
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| Whereas benefits are indexed to consumer price index inflation, revenue growth is driven by real wage growth. |
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| If the consumer price index sometimes overstates inflation, as some have argued, that could understate progress against poverty. |
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| Right now, benefits are set by a complex formula when a person first retires, and then are adjusted for inflation using the consumer price index. |
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| By contrast, salary increases for the same period in 2001 increased by 2.4 per cent against the consumer price index. |
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| It also announced a new mechanism that appeared to link the licence fee to the consumer price index. |
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| But the principal value is adjusted twice a year to reflect inflation, as measured by increases in the consumer price index. |
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| A better bet is to predict the price deflator using the consumer price index for non-durable goods. |
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| The price of the television licence is linked to the consumer price index which means that any increase has implications for inflation. |
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| Salary increases for the same period last year averaged 8 per cent against the consumer price index of 5.6 per cent. |
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| The second column in the table shows the rental index from the consumer price index. |
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| In recent years, software publishers have hit consumers with a double whammy that very likely escapes the consumer price index. |
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| Index the 60 per cent of median income to the consumer price index, and by 2001, only 2 per cent of people fell below the line. |
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| In the present U.S. system, benefits after retirement are indexed to the consumer price index. |
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| And a more sensible measure than the consumer price index should be used to determine benefit increases. |
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| Over the past 12 months, the consumer price index has risen a scant 1.4 percent. |
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| Gas and fuel prices have had a sizable impact on the consumer price index. |
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| I have spoken a number of times on the issue of the consumer price index and the miscalculated rate of inflation. |
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| If the consumer price index is higher than this percentage, the higher percentage will apply. |
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| This reform aimed at correcting the relative prices of oil products and their relationship to the general consumer price index. |
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| This method involves excluding a specified number of items from the set of goods and services formed to compile the consumer price index. |
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| In addition, an initial estimate of annual growth by the consumer price index will also come out on Friday. |
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| The basic amount is changed every year by the government according to changes in the consumer price index. |
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| That the earnings loss benefit be adjusted annually based on the consumer price index. |
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| The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday that the consumer price index was unchanged in July. |
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| But everything from job approval numbers to the unemployment rate to the consumer price index bodes badly for the president. |
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| The inflation rate is widely calculated by calculating the movement or change in a price index, usually the consumer price index. |
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| The overall result, as a result of the Government of Canada's decision on Marine Atlantic, was to increase fares on an annual basis tied to the consumer price index for the next five years. |
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| Pending this morning's release of the consumer price index and the import deflator on Thursday, investors dropped the bond market this week, touching off a gradual increase in rates. |
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| The consumer price index measures inflation. |
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| The changes in the 2008 version are not earth-shattering, but merely adapt compensation payments to the increases in the consumer price index and to higher costs of living. |
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| Monthly evolution of the consumer price index and of the so-called health index, which is used for the price indexation of wages, social benefits and house-rent. |
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| The change in the consumer price index is calculated in the same manner as the unit cost changes as described above. |
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| Among the determining parameters are the duration of the policy, the expected salary on normal retirement age and the periodical adjustment of pension payments to the consumer price index. |
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| In November, the consumer price index didn't rise at all. |
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| Earlier the Australian dollar fell on softer than expected consumer price index data, dragging the NZ dollar with it but the NZ dollar rose against the Australian dollar. |
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| The retail breakfast and roller meal prices and the consumer price index were collected from the Central Statistical Office of the Republic of Zambia. |
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| The cumulative increase in the producer price index for construction inputs since December 2003 remains more than double the 13 percent increase in the consumer price index. |
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| A chief measure of price inflation is the inflation rate, the annualized percentage change in a general price index, usually the consumer price index, over time. |
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| Nominal consumption is obtained by multiplying real consumption by the consumer price index, while indirect taxes are multiplied by the GDP deflator. |
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| Higher electricity charges are also beginning to impact on the Consumer Price Index. |
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| On Tuesday, retail prices in the form of the Consumer Price Index will be released. |
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| The first is its challenge to the view that a cost-of-living index should be the concept underlying the Consumer Price Index. |
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| The basket of consumer goods in the United States Consumer Price Index has changed little this year. |
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| Changes to the minimum wage are based on the nationwide Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers for the 12 months ending each Aug. |
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