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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest Consumer Price Index, a key marker of inflation, which showed that consumer prices rose 0.3% in November, part of a 2.7% increase over the ...
Shelter moderates, food remains sticky. Notable callouts from the inflation print include the shelter index, which rose 4.7% on an unadjusted, annual basis, lower than October's 4.9% increase.
Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy items and is watched more closely by the Fed, increased 0.3% for the fourth straight month. That kept the annual increase unchanged at 3.3% ...
For example, the BLS has stated that changes made due to the introduction of the geometric mean formula to account for product substitution (one of the Boskin recommended changes) have lowered the measured rate of inflation by less than 0.3% per year, and the methods now used are commonly employed in the CPIs of developed nations. [38]
The Labor Department reported Thursday that its producer price index — which tracks inflation before it reaches consumers — rose 0.4% last month from October, up from 0.3% the month before.
Inflation in New Zealand exceeded forecasts in July 2022, reaching 7.3%, which is the highest since 1990. [232] Economists at ANZ reportedly said they expected faster interest rate increases to counteract inflationary pressures. [233] In Fiji, inflation rose to 4.7% in April 2022 compared to –2.4% in 2021. [234]
Inflation rose 2.7% on an annual basis in November, according to the latest government report on the Consumer Price Index, or CPI. Last month's CPI was forecast to come in at 2.7%, according to ...
– Examples where inflation has eased, ranked by the size of the change: Passenger travel by air: August up 11.9%, September down 5.0% Olive oil: Aug up 40.8%, Sep up 33.0%