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The United States Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a family of various consumer price indices published monthly by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The most commonly used indices are the CPI-U and the CPI-W, though many alternative versions exist for different uses.
Consumer prices were up 2.7% for the 12 months ended in November, ... according to the latest Consumer Price Index data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. On a monthly basis ...
Core goods prices fell on a monthly basis by 0.1% and are down 1.8% for the 12 months ended in June, according to Thursday’s BLS report. Food prices saw a modest uptick last month, rising 0.2% ...
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the labor market added 206,000 nonfarm payroll jobs last month, ahead of the 190,000-plus expected by economists. However, the unemployment rate ...
CPI-U starting from 1913; Source: U.S. Department Of Labor Annual inflation (and deflation), 1914–2007. In the US, CPI figures are prepared monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor. The CPI-U includes expenditures by all urban consumers.
The BLS responded by making changes to the CPI-U and CPI-W, which included an adjustment to compensate for upper-level substitution bias, performed each January of an even-numbered year. In 2002 BLS created the Chained CPI (C-CPI-U) that provides more frequent monthly adjustment for substitution bias. [5]
Inflation data was worse than expected in June, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Consumer Price Index (CPI) increasing 9.1% for the 12 months ending June, a new four-decade high. The...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its January Consumer Price Index (CPI) at 8:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday. Here are the main figures from the report, compared to Wall Street estimates.