A basket of goods is defined as a constant set of consumer products and services valued on an annual basis and used to calculate the consumer price index.

Inflation heated back up again in November, but it likely wasn’t bad enough to keep the Federal Reserve from cutting rates next week. Consumer prices were up 2.7% for the 12 months ended in ...

Basket of Consumer Price Index (CPI) is set to be bigger, Rao Inderjit Singh, Minister of State (Independent Charge) in Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, has said.

3. When last did the BoS revise the weights of the CPI basket and why doesn’t it publish them, as does the CSO in Trinidad. I would hope the BoS respond to these questions, and that SN continues ...

For example, the consumer price index (CPI), a common measure of inflation, ... The U.S. CPI basket includes a 36.1% weighting for shelter costs derived mostly from rents and owners' equivalents.

The CPI measures price changes for a basket of commonly purchased goods and services. And in November, the cost of that grocery store basket was a bit more painful than it has been for a while.

Consumer prices were up 2.7% for the 12 months ended in November, moving higher from the 2.6% annual increase seen in October and marking the highest annual rate since July, according to the ...