November consumer prices up 0.2% as energy costs rise
U.S. consumer prices edged up 0.2% in November as a rise in energy costs and variety of other items offset a drop in food costs
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Your support makes all the difference.U.S. consumer prices edged up 0.2% in November as a rise in energy costs and variety of other items offset a drop in food costs.
The Labor Department reported that the gain in the consumer price index followed an unchanged reading in October and matched the 0.2% September advance. Still, the increase remained far below the 0.6% gains seen in June and July as the country was reopening following the spring virus shutdown.
Overall prices are up a modest 1.2% over the past year while core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy, has increased 1.6% over the past 12 months.
Inflation has been dormant for most of the past decade, allowing the Federal Reserve to push interest rates to ultra-low levels to provide support for an economy struggling to emerge from a pandemic-related recession.
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