Without China's goods exports, the U.S. CPI (consumer price index) should have risen about two (more) percentage points.

Currently the consumer price index is okay and we also want to boost consumption.

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

After work began on the Sino-ASEAN free trade zone on July 20 last year, leading to tariff reductions for approximately 7,000 categories of goods, China and ASEAN have entered a new stage in terms of economic cooperation and trade ties.

We have been trading on the low side but, ahead of the CPI [Consumer Price Index] number tomorrow, bonds have already moved pretty sharply over the past couple of weeks, ... The perception is that there's not a whole lot of upside and the CPI number isn't going to give the market much in the way of legs.

Retail sales are expected to be down, but worry about Producer Price Index and Consumer Price Index releases Thursday and Friday could keep any bond market rally in check.