March 20, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Consumer prices last month
On a seasonally
adjusted basis, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U)
rose 0.5 percent in February, following increases of 0.2 percent in each
of the preceding four months. For the 12-month period ended in February,
the unadjusted CPI-U increased 3.2 percent.
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The food index, which declined 0.1 percent in January, increased 0.4
percent in February, reflecting in part a sharp jump in meat prices. The
energy index rose 4.6 percent, its largest advance since a 6.0 percent
rise in April 1999. The index for petroleum-based energy increased 8.0
percent and the index for energy services rose 1.1 percent.
Excluding food and energy, the CPI-U rose 0.2 percent in February, the
same as in January.
These data are a product of the BLS Consumer
Price Index program.
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