Consumer prices up only slightly
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WASHINGTON - Consumer prices barely budged last month, suggesting that inflation isn&#39;t currently a problem for the economy and Federal Reserve policymakers can stick with a gradual approach to raising interest rates.
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Consumer prices rose by a mild 0.2 percent in November as costs for gasoline and food products calmed down after posting sharp increases the month before.
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U.S. consumer prices inched up just 0.1 percent last month as gasoline and car prices tumbled, the government said on Thursday in a report suggesting an inflation spike earlier this year was an aberration.
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A steady rise in food and energy costs pushed overall U.S. consumer prices up 0.7 percent in May, the sharpest gain in more than 1-1/2 years, but prices that strip out volatile food and energy barely edged up, the Labor Department said on Friday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Despite a rise in the price of gasoline last month, the annual inflation rate dipped slightly to 2.3 per cent. However, the core rate of inflation rose a bit more than analysts had expected, fuelling
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Food costs went up again but consumers got a break at the gas pumps in June, helping to lower inflation to 0.2 percent, the smallest increase in five months.
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WASHINGTON : American consumer prices climbed a moderate 0.2 percent in the month to September, curbed by a slide in energy costs.
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U.S. consumer confidence rose slightly in December, with marginal improvement in the outlook for business conditions, employment and inflation, according to a private report on Thursday.
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Consumer prices rose modestly in  December while industrial production was flat, leaving the door  open for the Federal Reserve to slash interest rates later this  month to shore up an economy that some fear is on the verge of  a recession.
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U.S. consumer prices rose an as-expected 0.2 percent last month, a government report showed on Tuesday, but a sharp jump in lodging costs helped push core inflation up at its fastest pace in five months.
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WASHINGTON -- Inflation at the consumer level rose by a larger-than-expected amount in January as falling energy prices only partially offset big increases in the cost of medical care, food and airline tickets.
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Consumer prices remain in line, boosting bond prices; dollar flat vs. euro, down against yen. NEW YORK  - US Treasury prices rose slightly Thursday after a key economic report pointed to tame inflation
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Consumer prices barely budged in August, suggesting that inflation isn&#39;t currently a problem for the economy and Federal Reserve policy-makers can stick with a gradual approach to raising interest rates.
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Consumer prices rose by a slightly bigger-than-expected 0.2 percent in June on higher food costs and they were up by the same amount after stripping out volatile food and energy prices, the Labor Department reported on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON -- Prices at the wholesale level edged up modestly in August, providing further evidence that inflation pressures are easing.
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U.S. consumer prices rose more  slowly in November as a surge in energy costs a month earlier  moderated, the government said on Friday, but a pickup in the  annual rate of increases stirred inflation worries.
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The Federal Reserve pushed U.S.  interest rates up by a modest quarter-percentage point on  Tuesday and expressed confidence that inflation could be kept  at bay by slowly lifting credit costs from rock-bottom levels.