Posts Categorized: Consumer Price Index

Housing prices rise again as does Food, but Airline Fares drop. Read More

Motor fuel contributed the bulk of June’s increase in the All Items index for CPI-U, while the year-over-year inflation dropped slightly, though staying at 2.1% when rounded to one decimal place. Read More

New York metro area year/year household energy prices up 9%. Los Angeles metro’s down by 1%. Read More

Weather related household energy costs contributed 0.10% of the monthly rise of 0.14% in the CPI-U. Year to year inflation rose slightly to 1.58% (from a December rate of 1.50%). Read More

Apart from motor fuel and home ownership, prices were little changed. Motor fuel prices rose in December, on an unadjusted basis – an unusual occurrence – and this gave rise to a relatively large adjusted rise. Unusual weather patterns in December may have had an effect. Read More

CPI-U and CPI-W both unchanged (to one decimal place) but with annual inflation rising to 1.24% from last month’s 0.96%, due to drop out of November 2012. Read More

Inflation in the South running at almost twice that in the North-East. Los Angeles area experiencing price deflation, while the San Francisco Bay Area’s inflation rate is 60% higher than the national average. Read More