The monthly Producer Price Index follows on Tuesday, and Wednesday brings the Consumer Price Index.
If the price index was down 50%, the note would be down 40%.
The price index or indexes that Ben Bernanke has spoken of favorably in the past won't do the trick.
On the downside, if the price index was down -10%, the note would be flat returning 100% of the principal.
For example on the upside, if the price index over the 18 month period was 10%, the note would return 20%.
The price index for personal consumption expenditures the Fed's preferred gauge for inflation advanced at an annualized 1.2% rate in the fourth quarter.
The price index for gasoline increased 1.4%, after falling 0.5% in December.
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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.
The price index for corporate goods in Japan , which tracks producer prices, increased by 3.6% in September compared with the year before.
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.
Then on Tuesday, we get the Consumer Price Index, which may be interesting, as the Producer Price Index last Friday was higher than expected at 1.1%.
In England the price index stood at 100.0 in 1717 (the first year of her gold standard) and it was at that figure again in 1930.
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Another measure of core inflation that we monitor closely, based on the price index for personal consumption expenditures excluding food and energy, shows a similar pattern.
The financial threat is especially serious for Graciela Bevacqua, who lost her job as head of INDEC in 2007 for refusing to tamper with the price index.
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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Put aside for the moment the impossibility of concocting a true price index the Consumer Price Index, for example, allocates less than 1% of the cost of living to health insurance!
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In the U.K., index-linked gilts adjust for movements in the Retail Price Index (RPI) and are similar to their American cousins, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), which track the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
The electricity tariff cut lowered the index by 0.45%, so if one takes away the one-off effect of this cut, and maintaining all other items the same, the price index would have reached 1.13% higher month over month, or a whopping 14.44% annualized.
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And former Labour defence secretary Lord Hutton - the man the government appointed to oversee a review of public sector pensions - said linking the military pension to the consumer price index, rather than the retail price index, would mean war widows and the injured would get smaller payments in future.
Separately, the January import price index rose 1.7%, higher than expected, while the export price index rose 1.2%.
U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the weekly Goldman Sachs chain store sales index, the producer price index, the weekly Johnson Redbook retail sales report, Treasury international capital flows data, and the NAHB housing market index.
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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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U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the NFIB small business index, weekly Goldman Sachs chain store sales index, the producer price index, retail sales, the weekly Johnson Redbook retail sales report and manufacturing and trade inventories and sales.
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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 fresh vegetable price index rose from 17.1 percent in January to 31 percent in October, while the fresh fruit price index rose from 9.8 percent to 17.7 percent.
He also wants to index it to the Consumer Price Index which means automatic adjustments to the cost-of-living (but not to labor conditions), ensuring that inflation cannot take the pressure off or undermine, depending on your ideology the minimum wage level.
U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the weekly Goldman Sachs chain store sales index, the Empire State manufacturing survey, the producer price index, advance retail sales, the weekly Johnson Redbook retail sales report, and manufacturing and trade inventories.
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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 Consumer Price Index for the first quarter in Japan was the highest in ten years.
M3 and rises in the broad price index over the past ten years (see lower chart).
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