The deflator for core personal-consumption expenditure (PCE), Fed officials' favoured index, was up 2.1% in the year to April.

美联储钟爱的核心个人消费品支出平减指数从年初到四月上升了2.1%。

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The latest GDP figures revised down the deflator for personal-consumption expenditures, the central bank's favourite inflation gauge, to an annual 2.4%.

最新的GDP数据将个人消费品支出平减指数调低至2.4%(每年)，而这个指数是联储最钟爱的通货膨胀判断标准。

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The Fed's preferred price gauge, the core personal-consumption deflator, went up by 2.4% in the year to October, only a little short of the fastest pace for a decade.

美联储偏爱的价格量尺，核心个人消费支出平减指数，到今年10月份上升了2.4%，与十年来的峰值只差一步之遥。

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Of course, the core CPI and the core personal consumption deflator (to be revised in July) argue that inflation excluding energy was somewhat contained through March.

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He notes that with little fanfare the Fed recently switched its inflation benchmark from the Personal Consumption Expenditure deflator to the Consumer Price Index.

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The Fed closely watches a cumbersome-sounding index, the core personal consumption expenditure deflator, for signs of inflation, and in the last few months, that indicator has dropped within the range Bernanke has been looking for--after three years of coming in above his range.

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