Central Banks & Monetary

Consumer Price Index and core measures

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Total CPI year-over-year (STATIC_ATABLE_V41690973) plus the three core-inflation measures the Bank of Canada monitors:

  • CPI_TRIM - CPI-trim, excludes 20% of the weighted monthly price changes at each tail (40% in all)
  • CPI_MEDIAN - CPI-median, the 50th-percentile year-over-year change across the basket
  • CPI_COMMON - CPI-common, factor-analytic estimate of common price movements

All monthly, published by Statistics Canada and mirrored via the Valet API. Bank of Canada targets 2% total CPI with a 1% to 3% band.

get/api/v1/boc/cpi

Request

  • Base URL: https://sugra.ai
  • URL: https://sugra.ai/api/v1/boc/cpi
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

recent_yearsinteger

Number of years of CPI history.

Response

Monthly total CPI year-over-year and three core inflation measures.

Example response

{
  "meta": {
    "endpoint": "/api/v1/fred/us/cpi",
    "data_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:00Z",
    "response_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:12Z",
    "provider": "Sugra API v1.0.1",
    "data_age_days": 8.532,
    "source": "sugra_crypto",
    "attribution": "Short interest and Reg SHO daily short volume data is owned by and sourced from FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).",
    "fallback_chain": [
      "sugra_crypto",
      "sugra_finance"
    ],
    "stale_since": "2026-09-08T12:00:00Z",
    "period": "2026-Q1",
    "notes": "the UKMTO report behind these counts is dated 2026-08-21 and is 11 days old"
  }
}

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