That amount would also grow each year under an index of price growth.
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Therefore it expresses the earnings as a percent of the index price rather than the index price as a multiple of the earnings.
In 2001, Vanderbilt's Mr. Whaley developed an index to exploit the high price of index options.
To compute real debt growth, we subtract the annual rate of change of the Consumer Price Index from the rate of change of gross total debt.
The beta value is calculated by comparing price movements of the security and the price movement of the representative index over the past 2 years of weekly data.
"The formula effect generally, and particularly in the case of clothing, is dependent not just on the choice of index but also on the characteristics of the price movements and levels being measured, sample design, choice of base period and price collection methods, " said its spokeswoman Jill Leyland.
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 price of crude materials in the Producer Price Index (PPI) increased by 3.3% in January alone and now stands 21% above where it was just six months ago.
The Baltic Dry Index, an index which measures the price of moving major raw materials by sea, is now over 1100.
The condition to peg off-peak fares at RPI -1, or 1% below the retail price index measure of inflation, will be written into the contract for the next rail franchise.
More than 50, 000 individual prices are collected in each survey round, and a cost-of-living index is calculated from the price data to express the difference in the cost of living between any two cities.
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.
Figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the Consumer Price Index stood at 2.9% at the end of September, net of the volatile food and energy markets.
The Case-Shiller index can sometimes overstate the magnitude of price increases because it includes foreclosures.
Health costs are outstripping inflation, increasing annually by three times that of the consumer price index.
Also on Thursday, we get the Consumer Price Index, and of course jobless claims.
Below is the monthly chart of the food price index (based on IMF data) going back 10 years.
Food prices, which make up most of the consumer price index, rose 10.61% on year in April, while fuel prices rose 8.10%, the data showed.
Best deployed when moderately bearish and one is looking to make a return on the small decline in the price of an index or stock.
Buy a put option with a strike above the current price of the index and write a simultaneous put option that has the same expiration month although with a lower strike.
President Obama has proposed replacing the regular consumer price index, or CPI, to adjust Social Security benefits with the chained CPI -- often called the cat food CPI because the index assumes that when the price of human food rises, seniors can substitute cheaper food to get the same nutrition.
The Registry's price index is calculated by measuring only the change in the price of properties that have been sold before, to ensure a proper comparison.
The cot of producing goods fell in December, according to the latest Producer Price Index (PPI) released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Wednesday.
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One way to play it would be to buy insanely out-of-the-money calls on the index, say 15-year options with a strike price of 40, 000.
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And I think that that reflects, sometimes, a misunderstanding of what the consumer price index actually is.
The Dollar Index is inversely correlated to the price of rice to such an extent that R2 is 0.98.
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Daniel Moynihan, D-New York, says the consumer price index overstates the cost of living between .7 and .2 percent.
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The price of the cash index (we were doing MMI) was way, way above where the futures were trading.
U.S. economic data due for release Friday includes the producer price index and the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey.
All told, over the four quarters of 2007, the price index for personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased 3.4 percent, up from 1.9 percent during 2006.
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