Excluding energy, the first-quarter growth rate for the remaining nine sectors would be -20.5%.
However, economists expected the core reading, which is a gauge of less volatile goods by excluding energy and food prices, to increase less than it did.
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Of course, the core CPI and the core personal consumption deflator (to be revised in July) argue that inflation excluding energy was somewhat contained through March.
If there is no sign of a rise in the core rate of inflation (excluding energy prices), then there is no need to raise interest rates.
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Core inflation in the euro area (that is, excluding volatile energy and food prices) is running at just 1.4%, up from 1.3% in August.
Excluding food and energy, the index increased 0.2%, and only 1.5% on a year-to-year basis.
But excluding food and energy, which are volatile, consumer prices rose just 0.2% during that month.
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Excluding food and energy costs, the core PPI rose 0.1 percent, less than economists expected.
Excluding food and energy prices, producer prices actually gained 0.4%, ahead of Wall Street's 0.2% projection.
Excluding food and energy, prices rose 0.4%, ahead of the 0.1% anticipated by analysts.
Excluding food and energy, prices have risen by 4.2%, ahead of 3.8% predicted by analysts.
Excluding food and energy, however, producer prices increased by 0.2%, the smallest price gain since last summer.
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But the core rate of inflation (excluding food and energy) jumped to 1.6% from 1.2% in February.
The index for all items excluding food and energy, or core CPI, showed an increase of 0.2%.
Excluding food and energy, the index was up 1.1 percent in the third, compared to 1.4 percent in the second.
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Core inflation (excluding food and energy) was just 0.6% in the year to October, the lowest since records began in 1957.
In the last three months of 2005, core consumer-price inflation (ie, excluding food and energy) was running at an annualised 2.6%.
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The core index, which measures prices on items excluding food and energy, picked up 0.1%, just one percentage point under the estimate.
Excluding food and energy, prices rose 3.8%, ahead of the projected 3.6%.
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.
Another measure of core inflation that we monitor closely, based on the price index for personal consumption expenditures excluding food and energy, shows a similar pattern.
Inflation, as measured by the core personal-consumption-expenditure deflator (excluding food and energy) fell to 0.7% at an annual rate in the third quarter, its lowest since 1962.
The so-called "core rate" excluding food and energy was 0.7.
The Labor Department said that the core producer price index for wholesale prices on goods excluding food and energy rose 0.5% in January, up from a 0.2% increase in December.
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Excluding food and energy costs, November CPI rose 0.1%.
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Most of the increase, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, can be attributed to a jump in prices excluding food and energy prices, despite seeing gains in both of those categories.
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Inflation as measured by the consumer price index (CPI) excluding food and energy rose 0.6% over the 12 months to October, recording the smallest 12-month increase since the index came into existence in 1957.
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