At the same time, the closely watched index of prices paid jumped to 53.6, from 48.1 in June.

Last week, the index jumped 48.19 points, or 4.2 percent.

And on Wednesday the index jumped 84 points, the biggest one-day gain in five years.

The index, which uses a 1967 base of 100, jumped by 2.39, to 217.94.

The index jumped by 4.62 points yesterday, to close at 366.25.

The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index jumped 49.57 points, or just more than 5 percent, to 1,023.46.

For July, the index jumped by 1.2 percent, the largest increase in three years.

I don't know why the index jumped so much in March.

The index jumped 94.06 points that day, to 1,344.06.

But on Thursday and yesterday, the index jumped 7.8 percent.