Food prices rose 6% on the year in February, pushing the CPI up by 1.98 percentage points.
For the past year, overall CPI rose 1.5%, the slowest year-over-year growth since July, with core CPI up 1.9%.
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The Labor Department is reporting that the consumer prices were little changed in June, with core CPI up 0.2 percent, excluding food and energy.
Core inflation is spreading slower than we expected (core CPI up 0.1% in October), while the correction in housing and autos came more abruptly (Q3 GDP increased 1.6%).
Over the past twelve months, CPI is up 2%, up from 1.6% in December.
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From 1975 through 1981, the CPI shot up at some of the fastest inflationary rates in American history.
On the year, the CPI was up 3.7% last month, matching the March figure, while the core rate was 2.4%.
Compared with March, the overall CPI rose 0.3%, while the advance report for May that covers the Tokyo area showed that core CPI was up 0.1%, the first positive figure since March 2009.
This morning it was reported that the consumer price index (CPI) was up 0.4% in January.
Auto sales have helped figured prominently in the latest rounds of economic data, helping push up CPI and industrial production.
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The consumer price index (CPI) is up 0.5% from June to July.
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Inflation at the consumer level (CPI) was up 0.2% in May, now up 3.6% over the last 12 months, more than double what it was a year ago.
The CPI might go up 125% in one decade (as it did 1971-1981), the dollar could permanently lose 66% against major currencies (as it did against the yen in this period), and commodities could shoot up ten-to twenty-five fold (as was the case with oil and gold).
In 1997, the BLS significantly changed the list of goods and services that make up the CPI.
During this same period of time most automotive companies have had at least three price increases and general inflation (CPI) has gone up 8.75 percent.
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In fact, the U.S. core CPI rate is likely to tick up to 1.7%, which would be the highest since December 2009.
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Back then, inflation measures like CPI were better geared to pick up on the monetary error that was smothering investment and growth, but today those same numbers have been reworked to obscure what is very much an inflationary age.
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Cost Of Living Extremely Well Index Jody Yen Our CPI for the Lear jet set is up only 2.8% this year.
In May, the CPI rose 0.1% and was up 3.1% year-on-year, while the core rate was up 0.2% and 2.4% on the year.
But since 1995, HECA has gone up by 12 percentage points more than CPI.
Everyone knows that healthcare makes up 4.6 percent of the CPI index but a much greater part of spending in the real economy.
Core CPI, which excludes food and energy costs, was up by 0.1%, also slower than general expectations for 0.2%.
That shows up clearly in the sharp decline in the CPI "core" index, which excludes food and energy, from 3.3% to 2.8%.
The board had said it would still consider making discretionary top up payments each year, over and above the CPI-related increases to which it is now committed.
Core CPI, which excludes both food and energy prices, ticked up 0.1% from November and 0.8% for the year, reaching its lowest levels since the index's inception in 1958.
In 1977 the CPI was 6.5% and it shot all the way up to 13.5% in 1980.
Rising fuel prices pushed inflation up in February, with the consumer price index (CPI) gaining 0.7%, its largest monthly gain in nearly four years.
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The CPI rise was mostly propelled by a continuing increase in food prices (up 14.8 percent), and pork prices in particular (up 57 percent), which is both bad news and good news for the Chinese economy.
Nothing fancy here: If the price of something goes up, the BLS simply makes it count for less in the CPI relative to everything else.
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