November 18, 1999 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Consumer prices in October
On a seasonally
adjusted basis, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban
Consumers (CPI-U)
rose 0.2 percent in October, following a 0.4 percent increase in
September. Excluding food and energy, the CPI-U rose 0.2 percent in
October, following an increase of 0.3 percent in September.
![Percent change from 12 months ago, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, not seasonally adjusted, October 1990-October 1999](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120925102447im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/1999/Nov/wk3/art04.gif)
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Smaller increases in the indexes for apparel and shelter, coupled with
a downturn in the index for cigarettes, were largely responsible for the
deceleration in the October all items less food and energy index. The
energy index, which increased sharply in each of the preceding three
months, declined 0.1 percent in October. For the fourth consecutive month,
the food index increased 0.2 percent.
For the 12-month period ended in October, the unadjusted CPI-U
increased 2.6 percent. During the same period, the CPI-U less food and
energy rose 2.1 percent.
These data are a product of the BLS Consumer
Price Index program. Find out more in Consumer
Price Indexes, October 1999, news release USDL 99-327.
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