Economics
Big-Data Infusion for U.S. Inflation Gauge Starts With Apparel
- ‘CorpX’ directly providing some figures beginning Wednesday
- Some economists see the change weighing on broader index
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The U.S. consumer price index, which traces its origins back more than a century, gets an infusion of big data this week to bring the Labor Department closer to what it sees as the future for economic indicators.