Friday, August 27, 2021

Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index Up 0.4% For July, 4.2% Year-over-Year

First up, from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, August 27, the news release:

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Personal Income and Outlays, July 2021

Personal income increased $225.9 billion (1.1 percent) in July according to estimates released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (tables 3 and 5). Disposable personal income (DPI) increased $198.0 billion (1.1 percent) and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $42.2 billion (0.3 percent).

Real DPI increased 0.7 percent in July and Real PCE decreased 0.1 percent; goods decreased 1.6 percent and services increased 0.6 percent (tables 5 and 7). The PCE price index increased 0.4 percent. Excluding food and energy, the PCE price index increased 0.3 percent (table 9).

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And the full report (12 page PDF

See also the graphs in "Personal Income and Outlays, July 2021" ( 4 page PDF)

More to come.