The fund, which seeks to mirror the Solactive China Consumer Index, has underperformed as of late, losing 4.6% since the beginning of the year.
On Tuesday, however, the RBI pointed out that the disparity between wholesale and consumer prices had widened due to high food inflation, which has a higher weight in the consumer index.
And finally, the monthly Producer Price Index and Consumer Price Index numbers are due Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.
The latest reading of the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index shows consumer confidence is at its highest level since 2007.
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Here might be why: The collapsing cost of digital technologies and Web distribution gets worked into the Producer Price Index and Consumer Price Index.
U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the weekly Goldman Sachs chain store sales index, the weekly Johnson Redbook retail sales report, the Case-Shiller home price index, the consumer confidence index, new residential home sales and the Richmond Fed business activity survey.
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But the consumer sentiment index is still worrying, particularly the low consumer expectations number.
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On Thursday, we will get the monthly report on the Producer Price Index and jobless claims, followed by the Consumer Price Index and industrial production numbers on Friday.
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The monthly Producer Price Index follows on Tuesday, and Wednesday brings the Consumer Price Index.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a broad measure of consumer inflation, is running about 1.7 percent per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Wall Street will be looking closely at the U.S. Producer Price Index for December released on Tuesday, and the Consumer Price Index on Wednesday for signs of growing inflationary pressures.
The producer price index, coming before the more closely-watched consumer price index reading due Friday, showed an expected leap in prices among manufacturers of goods in the U.S. due most heavily to high energy prices, according to the Department of Labor.
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The June Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the preliminary July University of Michigan consumer confidence survey will be published on Friday.
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Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation currently stands at 3.2% and the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) at 2.8%.
It also had a new formula for the consumer price index -- called chained CPI -- that wraps in new assumptions on consumer habits in response to rising prices, such as seeking cheaper alternatives, and would result in smaller benefit increases.
During that period, the Consumer Price Index, which measures the average change in prices over time for a basket of consumer goods and services, grew at a 3% annualized clip.
's Consumer Price Index, the federal government's primary inflation yardstick, measures the prices of a mix of consumer goods and services such as transportation, energy, food and medical care.
Since the Consumer Confidence Index dropped sharply in June (from 62.7 to 52.9), stocks with higher consumer exposure are not faring well.
The Shanghai Composite Index added 0.1% to 2349.59 as investors considered the implications of China's consumer price index for January, up 4.5% from a year earlier, well above economists' median forecast for a 4.1% rise.
Yet the consumer price index has grown at merely 1.5% for the past five years.
This morning it was reported that the consumer price index (CPI) was up 0.4% in January.
The Consumer Price Index is out on Tuesday, along with housing starts and industrial production.
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The Consumer Price Index for the first quarter in Japan was the highest in ten years.
What about measures of inflation, such as the Consumer Price Index, that are negative?
In April this year, the consumer confidence index tracked by economic tabloid Kontan dipped.
Today the Labor Department reported that the consumer price index (CPI) increased by 0.5% in July.
The National Bureau of Statistics announced that the consumer price index increased 3.3% last year.
That was a good bargain compared to an overall consumer price index that rose tenfold.
They decided to start using the more slowly rising consumer prices index (CPI) instead.
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