Last year, the Chinese government stopped providing nationwide home price statistics, and now only reports data on specific cities.
Trends in luxury real estate rarely correspond to the housing market at large, where foreclosure and price statistics remain discouraging.
Prices jumped to a higher-than-expected 1.4% in May and core producer prices, which exclude volatile food and energy prices, increased by 0.2%, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics' Producer Price Index.
In fact, official statistics show that property price increases slowed in July.
According to recently published government statistics, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose at an annual rate of 6.5 percent in July, up from 6.4 percent in June.
The National Bureau of Statistics announced that the consumer price index increased 3.3% last year.
Electricity statistics, manufacturing surveys, price indexes, corporate results, and other indicators suggest growth in the low single digits.
Just a few hours earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics reported that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) had increased 5.5% in May.
But we do have official statistics on these things, price indexes weighted to reflect the importance of various items in our budgets.
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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.
Overcapacity in the economy and commodity-price inflation seem to be the guiding forces behind Friday's consumer price report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as CPI gained 0.5% almost exclusively due to higher energy prices.
Since 1990, clothing prices in the U.S. have risen just 10% compared with an 82% jump in food prices during the same period, according to Jessica Tenvose, an economist with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which compiles the Consumer Price Index.
But anyone else who needed to know the true inflation rate simply turned to a clutch of private economists who drew on their own price surveys, data from provincial governments and other official statistics.
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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There is no question that dividends are one way public companies return cash flow to investors, but statistics prove that float shrink is better for overall price performance as the stock of companies who shrink the float using free cash flow rise more then companies using the same amount of cash to pay dividends.
The National Bureau of Statistics in China reported on Nov. 4 that the average price of everything from rice to soybeans is either unchanged from the previous month, or lower.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Sunday that 35 out of 70 cities monitored saw price increases last month compared with 31 cities in September.
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