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Consumer prices are lower now than they were a year ago, and wage increases have stalled in the face of high unemployment.

A modest pension of $7 a week in 1900 would be worth $184 a week today if it had been linked to consumer prices.

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Across the border Canadian consumer prices rose at the fastest pace for more than a year.

Another big factor appeared to be the threat of deflation that loomed over America's economy as consumer prices slipped.

It had touched historic lows compared to consumer prices or other assets like shares.

Consumer prices, which the Federal Reserve would prefer to see growing 1. 5% to 2% a year excluding food and energy, are barely rising.

He said "every means" would be used to control consumer prices.

But the bank's credibility is starting to be questioned as inflation keeps on exceeding the 2% target for consumer prices.

The IMF says China's consumer prices is likely to peak within the next month or two, but housing prices will be more difficult to tame.

Consumer prices rose 4. 4 percent in October from a year earlier, the fastest pace in two years.

Three years of financial recovery have made Iceland more affordable, with consumer prices now largely pegged to the euro.

That, in turn, has helped to push up the prices for imported goods flowing into the United States and fueled a rise in consumer prices.

In March Japanese consumer prices (including energy and food) rose by 1. 2% compared with a year earlier, the highest pace in a decade.

Separate data also showed Chinese consumer prices continued to fall in July .

In Australia, a faster-than-expected increase in consumer prices yesterday raised the prospect of a further interest rate rise next week.

For the first time in a year, consumer prices fell in June, according to a new report from the Commerce Department released Tuesday.

The other alternative is to raise consumer prices or impose austerity measures. History shows that such moves can be politically dangerous.

December data was friskier, with consumer prices up 2. 8 per cent on a year-on-year basis, but much of this is due to grain.

Money quantities, economic growth and consumer prices are decidedly poor measures of inflation, but the dollar's price in terms of gold is.

Consumer prices, however they are measured, are more than 10% higher than a year ago.

Consumer prices, property prices and wages all began to rise at a faster pace.

Consumer prices are rapidly rising in Asia, and many people are trying to stretch their budgets.

It wants to be sure that the rise in consumer prices does not trigger a rise in wage inflation.

China's real income growth and climbing consumer prices will indeed raise the amount of personal income tax that individuals have to pay.

Consumer Price Index (CPI) A measure of change in consumer prices, revised monthly by the U.

"We've only started to see the impact of higher costs translate into higher consumer prices, " Lapp said.

But if paper money is being debased, the evidence has yet to show up in consumer prices.

If so, it may allow the big brands to overcharge, pushing merchants' profits down and consumer prices up.

Consumer prices rose 2. 9 percent from a year earlier, compared with 3. 2 percent in February, the Office for National Statistics said.

The bank has the task of keeping inflation, measured by the consumer-prices index, at 2%.

Consumer prices were 2. 7 percent higher in February than a year earlier, after prices were falling as recently as last October.

President Ahmadinejad has failed to deliver on his campaign promises of better consumer prices.

Chinese consumer prices will rise about 3 percent from a year earlier in both May and June.

More Chinese households forecast that consumer prices will rise in the next quarter, a central bank survey showed.

Meanwhile consumer prices rose at the fastest pace in nearly two years in September, official data showed.

Consumer prices in September rose at an annual rate of 3. 6 percent, near the top of its preferred inflation rate.

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Consumer prices rose by 4. 9% in January from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said.

Consumer prices in peripheral countries have risen at a faster rate than in Germany since the start of the euro in 1999.

But if the rise in consumer prices starts to taper off, demand for gold as a hedge against inflation may be corroded.

The Japanese yen failed to benefit from news that Japanese core consumer prices rose at their fastest pace in a decade in March JPCPI=ECI.

Data this week include the latest looks at consumer prices, retail sales and consumer sentiment, as well as housing and manufacturing data.

Plus, commodities including oil have started to fall recently, indicating that the rise in consumer prices may be near its peak.

These worries are understandable, but we are confident to pledge that China is capable of keeping consumer prices basically stable.

Consumer prices in Britain rose by 1. 8% in the year to August, down from 1. 9% in July and the lowest rate in over a year.

Consumer prices rose at their fastest rate in 19 months, at a pace of 3. 1 percent from a year earlier, the report said.

High oil prices in the first quarter were a contributing factor to China's turbocharged increase in consumer prices.

China has been battling inflation, with consumer prices rising 4. 9% in February from the same month a year ago.

Inflation will come to the fore this week, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases readings on producer and consumer prices.

Since Estonia's main export products to food, with the increase in food demand, export prices, domestic consumer prices has also risen.

Even in booming emerging economies core consumer prices are rising much more slowly than they were in 2008.

Seasonally-adjusted, month-on-month consumer prices are likely to rise for the fourth consecutive month in June.

Deflation is no distant threat: consumer prices are already declining.

The rise in Japanese consumer prices was mainly due to a jump in gasoline and tobacco prices.

Moreover, excluding food and energy, consumer prices are up 1. 8 per cent from a year ago.

After accounting for that effect, Standard Chartered's Ms. Yan said consumer prices actually rose 0. 2% in March from February.

While this is good for manufacturers' margins it pushes up consumer prices, which is a headache for the Bank of England.

Without China, consumer prices in the U. S. would be higher, but not much.

A shift in expectations could become a self-fulfilling prophecy that results in continually rising consumer prices.

Such fears can be self-fulfilling as higher food, energy and import costs work their way into consumer prices.

China's consumer prices rose 5. 1% in November from a year earlier, the biggest increase since July 2008.

Consumer prices are rising uncomfortably fast, and people's expectations of future inflation, by some measures, have inched upwards.

June consumer prices rose 4. 4 per cent from a year earlier, compared with the central bank's target of 4 per cent.

They must steer between the shoals of short-term deflation and the longer-term risk of accelerating consumer prices.

Soaring commodity prices are pushing up consumer prices across the globe.

India yesterday raised interest rates for the second straight month in a bid to contain fast-rising consumer prices.

Overall consumer prices were 4. 4 percent higher last month than a year earlier.

These enormous increases pushed up consumer prices across the globe.

Core consumer prices are rising and inflation is expected to average 2 per cent over the next 10 years.

Consumer prices rose 5. 1 percent in November from a year earlier, the most in 28 months, mainly driven by food costs.

Consumer prices rose 7. 1 percent in January from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said today, after gaining 6. 5 percent in December.

This extra money was used to push up asset, rather than consumer, prices.

How can banks be expected to lend more to re-inflate the economy's asset prices while wages and consumer prices continue to drift down?

Dearer oil has pushed up consumer prices, but expectations of future price increases have remained remarkably stable.

Exports are expected to drop by a fifth this year, with consumer prices projected to fall sharply too.

In May, consumer prices increased 5. 5 percent versus a year earlier.

Now policymakers and investors have their eye on consumer prices for the opposite reason: fear of deflation.

The tech delivers four-gigabit-per-second data rates, far faster than anything previously available at consumer prices.

Back in June, the latest data showed the increase in consumer prices leveling off at 5. 5% year-to-year.

Recent figures show that, in February, consumer prices rose 2. 7 per cent over the previous year, close to the 3 per cent unofficial target.

The board's unanimous belief that consumer prices will stabilise or rise soon makes a change of monetary policy in the near future likely.

China's inflation rate jumps to highest level in a decade BEIJING: Chinese consumer prices.

Consumer prices in January rose 4. 9% from a year earlier.

Wage inflation ultimately leads to increases in consumer prices as higher nominal wages boost spending power.

History shows that emerging markets do exceptionally well in periods of rising commodity and consumer prices.

Consumer prices surged 4. 9% over the 12 months ending in February -- a rate far outpacing price increases in the United States and Europe.

U. S. consumer prices are essentially flat, undermining the inflation argument for commodities.

Until recently, consumer prices have held up surprisingly well, thanks to the effect of previous increases in energy and commodities prices.

Consumer prices in cities and towns rose 6. 8 percent in January from a year earlier while those in rural areas jumped 7. 7 percent.

But even for the younger generation, falling consumer prices are cushioning the blow of lower wages.

Moreover, Japan has been plagued by bouts of deflation-falling consumer prices since the late 1990s.

The changes it brings have affected production and, combined with high feed cost, boosted consumer prices.

CICC estimates consumer prices rose 4. 5 percent in December from a year earlier, while Merrill's forecast is 4. 8 percent.

Core consumer prices registered a small increase in October, but fell again in November.

About 70% of the fall in consumer prices was attributed to lower fuel costs, but with those omitted, the cost of living still dropped 0. 7%.

During this period consumer prices remained subdued , giving false security .

Consumer prices rose a seasonally adjusted 0. 1% from the previous month and 2. 3% from a year earlier.

When will consumer prices go down as a result of the strong yen?

The US economy continues to perform well and higher oil prices are putting some upward pressure on consumer prices.

For now, consumer prices remain benign, although they are ticking higher on a headline basis and after stripping out food.

Meanwhile, consumer prices posted their second straight record monthly drop.

Since America was on a gold standard, this resulted in about 20 percent deflation in consumer prices.

This approach for the most part kept consumer prices down, but practical problems have long been clear.

Chinese consumer prices grew 3. 4 per cent year on year in May, the fastest pace in more than two years, as pork prices soared.

The government has set a 4 percent inflation target this year but private sector analysts say consumer prices could rise by up to 6 percent.

That extra money supply can put upward pressure on asset and consumer prices, and push currencies higher.

Then there are those theorists who simply use consumer prices as the truest, most market-driven measure of inflation.

The economic policy model in most leading countries is based on the idea of an inflation target linked to consumer prices.

With consumer prices rising at an annualized rate of 5. 1% in November, yuan appreciation would, in theory, help by cooling import prices.

And core consumer prices were flat in February. But commodity prices and the dollar point to price pressures ahead.

Unfortunately, consumer prices in China are rising by 4. 6% a year, leaving depositors with negative real returns.

That's evidence of a lot of inflationary pressure in the pipeline that will eventually make its way to consumer prices.

In April, India raised interest rates for the second straight month to offset fast-rising consumer prices.

In July, consumer prices excluding fresh food fell for a 17th consecutive month.

Those higher costs are one reason that U. S consumer prices have risen this year, despite the weak economy.

For most of this year, Beijing has been keeping tight control over consumer prices.

self-sufficiency in rice with stable consumer prices, the Stable Food Control Act of 1942 divorced producer and consumer prices.

The bigger point is that even if you take out housing costs the recent acceleration in core consumer prices does not disappear (see chart).

Overheating risks abound as officials in Beijing grapple with the biggest increases in consumer prices in 16 months.

Stock prices in Shanghai have dropped nearly 10% since an unexpected spike in consumer prices was reported last week.

Sometimes it's about the alleged risk of inflation: every uptick in consumer prices has been met with calls for tighter money now now now.

In Ontario, consumer prices were up 2. 9 per cent from a year earlier after June's 1. 6 per cent increase.

Headline consumer prices rose by 0. 7%, the biggest monthly increase for nearly two years.

But consumer prices rose by 4. 4% in the year to October, the fastest rise for over two years.

The rise in consumer prices was slightly below economists' expectations of a 3. 4% rise.

"Consumer prices are now on the downward track, " said Chen Jianqi, an economist with Bank of Communications.

These policies had helped contain the rising trend of consumer prices, Wen said.

And while inflation was a worry earlier this year, peaking at 8. 7% in February, consumer prices grew by a relatively modest 6. 3% in July.

Analysts said rising producer prices had driven up consumer prices.

Unchanged consumer prices in April will ease the deflation threat.

The surging energy prices have driven up Japanese consumer prices.

Japan's consumer prices have declined in nine of the last 20 years; the average annual decline was six 10ths of 1 percent.

Consumer prices in the euro area rose by 3. 2% in the year to January, well above the 2% limit of the central bank's target range.

Consumer prices have fallen for three months in a row.

The move followed the biggest rise in consumer prices in more than a decade.

Consumer prices for agricultural workers (among whom Mayawati has her supporters) rose by 16. 5% in the year to February.

Spending power has also been boosted by falling consumer prices.

Consumer prices overall are rising at a 2. 7 percent annual rate, while average hourly wages increased by just fraction of one percent.

South Korea's inflation rate hit a 29-month high in March as higher fuel and food costs continue to push consumer prices.

Taking into account the March figure, consumer prices for the first quarter have risen by 8% YoY.

Consumer prices barely rose in March from February, and increased 2. 3% over the previous year.

Most Beijing residents think consumer prices too high.

That year-on-year increase in consumer prices was slightly outside the central bank's comfort zone.

Core consumer prices in April were flat against the previous month and up only 0. 9% over the previous 12 months.

Consumer prices rose 0. 2% in July, as measured by the personal consumption expenditure price index.

The report on consumer prices helped ease those concerns.

Is that old adage worth bearing in mind as consumer prices across the globe accelerate?

Euro-zone data on consumer prices for August will be released later in the session.

Food prices are rising twice as fast as consumer prices overall.

Yet inflation continues, with consumer prices jumping 11 percent this year.

This week it emerged that consumer prices had risen by 3. 1% in the year to March, the highest since the official series started in 1997.

Consumer prices in October declined.

when US consumer prices and durable goods orders will be released.

In developing Asia, food makes up 34. 5% of consumer prices, according to HSBC economists, compared with about 15% in the U. S.

Japan's consumer prices have fallen for the first time in four months, as weak domestic demand and deflation continue to weigh on growth.

Consumer prices in New York, including rent, are 136 percent higher than in Beijing.

In America consumer prices in January were up 4. 3% on a year-over-year basis.

Those figures are expected to show core consumer prices running well below the Fed's comfort zone, up just 1% since April 2009.

In China, consumer prices were 5. 1 percent higher in November than a year earlier, according to official government data.

What happened to consumer prices? They fell.

Consumer prices actually declined by 0. 1% in August compared with the month before, the Labour Department said on Tuesday.

In Indonesia, ground is being quickly ceded, as consumer prices rose by 6. 3% in the year to November.

Consumer prices could be a wild card for 2011.

Overall consumer prices rose 2. 9 percent year-on-year after increasing by the same margin in January.

Consumer prices rose an annual 5. 5 percent in May, even after the central bank raised interest rates four times since September.

With too little money chasing too many goods, consumer prices fell by 23%.

Excluding food, consumer prices have risen by only 1% over the past year.

Core consumer prices, which exclude volatile fresh-food prices, fell by 0. 1% in the year to July.

Latest data on Chinese inflation show consumer prices rose by 5. 1 per cent in November, a much higher rise than expected.

U. S. consumer prices actually fell 0. 1% in April from the previous month, the Labor Department reported.

Consumer prices posted their smallest increase in more than 50years in 2008.

In the first three quarters of this year, the consumer prices went up by 2. 9 percent year-on-year.

A Labour Department survey showed consumer prices rose a modest 0. 3 percent in March amid a spike in energy prices.

The government said consumer prices were "basically stable. "

Fears of a prolonged period of deflation were fuelled by a0. 1% fall in consumer prices in March, the first decline for 18 months.

Thailand reported consumer prices rose 3% in April.

In July, the data for June showed consumer prices rising higher than expected, up 6. 4% year-to-year.

Thursday's order comes a day after Beijing said consumer prices rose 5. 3 percent in April.

In April, consumer prices in China rose more than 5%, and Chinese officials have repeatedly acknowledged a housing bubble in major cities.

Without food and energy costs, consumer prices increased only 0. 1 percent for the second straight month.

But consumer prices still rose in March at their fastest pace in 32 months.

Friday's consumer-price report is expected to show that 2009 marked the first annual decline in consumer prices in 54 years.

In the first decade of the 21st century, the annual change in consumer prices averaged just 1. 9%.

Rewind 12 months, when consumer prices were rising around 3%, and the message was similar.

In 2008, overall consumer prices actually fell for the first time in half a century, but then rebounded as energy prices stabilized.

Consumer prices are now rising at least 5 per cent year-on-year; less than the 11 per cent seen in Egypt but double last year.

One-year lending rates are 7. 5 per cent but inflation is rampant, with consumer prices increasing 7 per cent year-on-year in January.

With inflation running at 3. 6%, yields aren't keeping up with consumer prices.

Consumer prices were down by 0. 4 per cent year-on-year, the labour department said yesterday.

Friday, the government releases data on consumer prices.

The Labor Department reported that consumer prices rose 0. 5 percent last month, the largest increase since June 2009.

Compared with the previous month, consumer prices dipped by 0. 1%.

On average, the economists expect consumer prices will rise 1. 9% this year, within the Federal Reserve's comfort zone of 1. 5% to 2%.

Strip out medical care, says the government, and consumer prices have barely changed in the past six months.

And they have publicly set a target of not allowing the annual increase in consumer prices to reach 5 percent again.

America's consumer prices fell by 0. 4% in the year to March, the first annual decline since 1955 (see chart).

Indonesia said consumer prices there rose 3. 9% from the year-earlier period, while core inflation rose 3. 7%.

Consumer prices in America fell by 0. 1% in August, leaving them 2. 0% higher than a year earlier.

The latest figures show consumer prices rising at 0. 5% per month.

For the whole year, consumer prices rose 3. 3 percent, above the target of 3 per cent Beijing set at the start of 2010.

Consumer prices climbed 6. 4 percent in June driven by a 14percent gain in food costs.

In October, consumer prices fell for the 20th consecutive month, though declines were more muted because the government hiked tobacco taxes.

Consumer prices surged 4. 4% year-on-year in October, a 25-month high, stoking inflation fears.

January's consumer prices climbed 1. 2 percent from December.

Data released last Friday showed consumer prices in March rose by 5. 4% year-on-year, the highest in three years.

Consumer prices there were up 4. 9% from the year earlier in both January and February -- above the government's 4% target.

Chinese consumer prices fell by 1. 8% in the year to July.

And in seven of the past 10 years its consumer prices have fallen.

Indeed, excluding these shelter costs, consumer prices in February rose by 3. 5% rather than the 2. 2% headline figure.

Because the government sets artificially low consumer prices, the farmer can't pay for adult harvest workers.

For the whole year, consumer prices rose 3. 3 per cent, above Beijing's target of 3 per cent.

Today it is negative and few expect consumer prices to rise by much more than 3-4% in 2010.

Consumer prices rose 5. 6% in the year to July, the fastest clip since 1991.

Core consumer prices, which do not include food, dropped by a record 1. 7% in the year to June.

In America "core" consumer prices, which exclude food and fuel, rose by a modest 0. 8% in the year to December.

Core consumer prices rose a mere 0. 8% over the past year.

Consumer prices rose by 6. 4%. in the year to June.

Even as income and spending fell, consumer prices increased 1. 6% in 2010.

Several economists forecast that consumer prices in China would begin to fall from this month.

In the year to April core consumer prices rose by a mere 0. 9% in America, the slowest pace in four decades.

Consumer prices rose 5. 3 percent or 5. 4 percent last month, according to a Phoenix Television report yesterday.

U. S. consumer prices for apparel fell for 13 of the past 17 years, according to Labor Department data.

Core consumer prices -- which exclude volatile food and energy prices -- rose 0. 1% in July and are up 1. 4% in the past year.

Consumer prices have exceeded the government's 4 percent target for 2011 in each of the past four months.

The reason: since 1990, U. S. consumer prices have risen by 69. 5%, while in Japanese prices have increased just 8. 5%.

In the US, consumer prices for food eaten at home have gained 5. 4 per cent in the past 12 months.

In May, consumer prices rose 3. 1 percent, the fastest pace in 19 months.

The question is, 'what do you do when asset prices fall at the same time that consumer prices rise?

Consumer prices rose three percent in 1971, six percent in 1972 and 12 percent in 1973, according to Labor Department figures.

Consumer prices for new cars fell, on average, by 0. 4% per year in 2007 and 2008.

There, consumer prices rose 3. 3% in July, but food prices rose 6. 8%.

Even so, consumer prices jumped 6. 2 percent from August 2010 to August 2011.

The World Bank now expects consumer prices to rise by 3. 7% on average this year, up from 2% in November, and by 2. 8% in 2011.

In America headline consumer prices fell by 1. 3% in the year to September.

Consumer prices in China rose by 5. 3% last month, down a smidgen from March but still above the government's inflation target.

While wholesale prices may have fallen, consumer prices remain a concern, at about 8 per cent higher than last year.

National statistics shows a slow rising in consumer prices when eighty percent of citizens feel more pressure from life than ten years ago.

Core consumer prices in China increased 2. 6% year-over-year in January, after posting a 2. 1% rise in December.

In America consumer prices rose by 1. 2% in the year to July.

The possible impact of higher oil prices on consumer prices in Hong Kong should be quite minor.

Consumer prices in July rose 6. 5% compared with the same month last year, the National Bureau of Statistics said.

Consumer prices rose by 4. 4 per cent year-on-year in China and 4. 1 per cent in South Korea last month, well above target.

Consumer prices in Japan rose unexpectedly in July due to higher energy costs.

The government has forecast consumer prices to jump 4. 5% this year, after a 2. 4% rise in 2010.

Consumer prices are once again falling in Japan and are barely rising in the euro area.

China's consumer prices rose by 5. 6% in the year to July, the biggest increase for ten years, because of sharp rises in the cost of meat.

Consumer prices were up 4. 8% for all of last year, but inflation for January is expected to clock in at 7%.

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After adjusting for inflation (measured using American consumer prices), in recent weeks the gold price has been at its highest for 30 years