How to Use price index in a Sentence

price index

noun
  • Friday's price index numbers put us on the right track for that.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 1 May 2021
  • These are measured with price indexes.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The current price index is based on the revenues rather than the volume of usage.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2020
  • Also, humans tend to look at their checkbook balances as their price index.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 15 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • In fact, the Case-Schiller home price index recently ticked up.
    — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2023
  • Over the last two decades, the price index for tuition and fees has increased 172%.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The fee is calculated based on a weekly diesel price index.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The producer price index has been at 10 percent year-over-year.
    — Jon Hartley, National Review, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Traders will also watch out for March's import and export price indexes.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The stock market stopped trading after a sharp drop in the benchmark share price index on Monday.
    — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • On Wednesday, traders will also watch out for the latest producer price index.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • What’s your take on the CPI [consumer-price index] report from this morning?
    — WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The consumer and producer price indexes for the month of September were due out next week.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The producer price index tracks the prices businesesses pay each other for their goods and services.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • These worries are being compounded this week by hot prints in both the consumer price index and the producer price index .
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 13 May 2026
  • The producer-price index fell in August and July from the prior months.
    — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Wall Street is betting the producer price index, or PPI, will slow as well.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 9 Oct. 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
  • But the consumer price index, the producer price index, and retail sales will likely be delayed due to the shutdown.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2025
  • However, this is a price index problem, not a GDP problem.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • 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
  • The bitcoin price index on trade website Coindesk slid below $3,000 for the first time in six weeks.
    — Reuters, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Other data due this week include the producer price index and durable goods orders for September.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The consumer price index comes out on Tuesday, and the producer price index follows on Thursday.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2025
  • While other home price indexes and surveys measure just existing home values, this one measures both new and existing.
    — Diana Olick, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Weekly jobless claims and the May producer price index are on the economic calendar.
    — Jeff Marks,morgan Chittum, CNBC, 10 June 2026
  • While running hotter than that in most price indexes, even when stripping out volatile food and energy costs, Warsh wants to change the way inflation is tracked.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The country is set to post consumer price index and producer price index data for August on Wednesday.
    — Eunice Yoon, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025

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