If we use the rise in labor costs as the DE facto inflation index - instead of the CPI - to compute the real effective exchange rate, the yuan has appreciated 50 percent already since 2005.

代替消费者价格指数，如果我们使用劳动力成本的涨幅作为实际通胀指数，来计算实际有效汇率，那么自2005年起人民币已经升值了50%。

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The 0.1 percent fall in the consumer price index was the first decrease since March 2009, figures from the Labor Department showed today in Washington.

根据美国劳工部今天在华盛顿公布的数据，消费价格指数下降0.1%，是自2009年3月以来第一次下降。

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The consumer price index fell 1.7 percent in November, the Labor Department said, the second consecutive record-setting monthly drop.

劳工部宣布，11月的消费者价格指数下降了1.7%，这是连续第二个月的创纪录的跌幅。

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