specific price index
1Price index — A price index (plural: “price indices” or “price indexes”) is a normalized average (typically a weighted average) of prices for a given class of goods or services in a given region, during a given interval of time. It is a statistic designed to… …
2Consumer price index — CPI redirects here. For other uses, see CPI (disambiguation). A consumer price index (CPI) measures changes in the price level of consumer goods and services purchased by households. The CPI, in the United States is defined by the Bureau of Labor …
3Commodity price index — A commodity price index is a fixed weight index or (weighted) average of selected commodity prices, which may be based on spot or futures prices. It is designed to be representative of the broad commodity asset class or a specific subset of… …
4Consumer Price Index — consumer price in·dex n: an index measuring the change in the cost of typical wage earner purchases of goods and services in some base period – called also cost of living index; Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. Consumer …
5retail price index — noun an index of changes in retail prices • Hypernyms: ↑price index, ↑price level * * * retail price index noun A monthly index of the retail prices of specific household goods and services, used as a measure of the rate of inflation (abbrev RPI) …
6Consumer Price Index — CPI 1) In the UK, the usual name for the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), a measure of price level introduced in 1997 to enable comparisons within the EU. In 2003 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that government inflation… …
7Consumer Price Index — CPI 1) In the UK, the usual name for the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), a measure of price level introduced in 1997 to enable comparisons within the EU. In 2003 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that government inflation… …
8Consumer Price Index — (CPI) cost of living index, (Economics) comparison of the price of basic goods and services during a specific period versus the price of those goods and services during a base period (used as a measure of the inflation rate) …
9Index-Linked Bond — A bond in which payment of income on the principal is related to a specific price index often the Consumer Price Index. This feature provides protection to investors by shielding them from changes in the underlying index. The bond s cash flows… …
10index — noun 1 list of names/topics ADJECTIVE ▪ complete, comprehensive ▪ detailed ▪ general ▪ alphabetical ▪ card ( …