Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Market Sensitivity: Very high.
What Is It: Most popular measure of price inflation in retail goods and services.
News Release on Internet: www.bls.gov/cpi/
Home Web Address: www.bls.gov/
Release Time: 8:30 A.M. (ET); released the second or third week following the month being covered.
Frequency: Monthly.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
Revisions: No monthly revisions. Only annual changes are introduced in February with the release of the January CPI data. Revisions then can go back five years.
Why Is It Important
Along with the employment report, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is another one of those red-hot economic indicators that is carefully dissected by the financial markets. It's fairly ...
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