Americans may not see price spikes in a broad category of goods and services (what the CPI measures), but that doesn't mean they feel better off, as the increases in energy and health care prices attest.
Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. engages as a sporting goods retailer, which offers a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel and footwear in a specialty store environment.
Most economists suggest that central banks should stick to stabilising the nominal prices of a broad basket of consumer goods, and hold their tongue on share prices.
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And capital goods also experienced a broad declined: Caterpillar fell 1.6%, as Deere lost 0.6%.
Defense companies and business groups have long complained that the current rules are too broad and overlapping, unnecessarily subjecting some goods to export licenses.
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The adidas Group is one of the global leaders within the sporting goods industry, offering a broad range of products around the core brands: adidas, Reebok, TaylorMade, Rockport and Reebok-CCM Hockey.
"For fast-moving, everyday consumer goods, there are some broad megatrends that will continue to push demand forward, which are ongoing urbanization in China and then, of course, the related growth of the middle class, " Hein Schumacher, the China chief for food maker H.
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The basket of goods and services is divided into 12 broad categories, and every year the ONS comes up with weightings for each category based on how often they are bought by an average person.
But Nike, for instance, has a broad product line which includes everything from shoes to apparel to sporting goods, which in turn allows them stronger negotiating power with retailers.
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