3rd Quarter 2024 Market Price Index Data. The third quarter was strong for risk assets and safe havens with u.s. 2024โs stock market rally was thrown.
Consumer prices, as measured by the personal consumption expenditures price index, increased 2.5%, compared with an increase of 3.4% in the first quarter. While the federal reserve favors the personal consumption expenditure price index (pce) as the most accurate measure of inflation, the consumer price index (cpi) also provides valuable.