Today’s Inflation Report

This morning’s consumer inflation report showed that prices rose 0.2% last month. Economists were expecting an increase of 0.1%. The “core rate,” which excludes food and energy prices, rose 0.1%.

It’s too early to make such a call with confidence, but we may be seeing the end of disinflation, the falling rates of price increases.

The chart below shows the monthly changes for headline inflation (blue) and core inflation (red). The monthly changes are annualized.

Posted by on April 15th, 2014 at 1:12 pm


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