U.S. Dec CPI rose 0.2 pct

Biz.Yahoo/Reuters ^ | January 15, 2004

[Starwind]

U.S. Dec CPI rose 0.2 pct
Thursday January 15, 8:30 am ET

 WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - U.S. Labor Department monthly
Consumer Price Index (CPI-U), 1982-84 equals 100 (except where
noted):
.   Percent Changes:           Seasonally Adj.  Unadjusted
.                                  Dec    Nov   Dec03/02
All Items                          0.2   -0.2      1.9
 Excluding Food/Energy             0.1   -0.1      1.1
Energy                             0.2   -3.0      6.9
Food and Beverages                 0.6    0.4      3.5
Food                               0.6    0.4      3.6
CPI-Urban Consumers-X            184.3  184.5
 X-Data unadjusted.
.   Percent Changes:           Seasonally Adj.  Unadjusted
.                                  Dec   Nov   Dec03/02
Housing                            0.3  -0.1      2.2
Shelter                            0.3  UNCH      2.2
Rent of Primary Residence          0.2   0.2      2.7
Owners' Equivalent Rent-Y          0.1   0.1      2.0
Housing Fuels/Utilities            0.5  -0.9      6.5
Household Furnishings/Operations   0.2  -0.3     -1.8
Y-Dec 1982=100 base.
.   Percent Changes:           Seasonally Adj.  Unadjusted
.                                  Dec    Nov   Dec03/02
Apparel                           -0.4   -0.5     -2.1
Transportation                    -0.2   -1.3      0.3
New/Used Motor Vehicles-V         -0.4   -0.4     -4.4
New Vehicles                      UNCH   UNCH     -1.8
Gasoline                          -0.1   -5.0      6.8
.   Percent Changes:           Seasonally Adj.  Unadjusted
.                                  Dec    Nov   Dec03/02
Medical Care                       0.6    0.3      3.7
Prescription drugs                 0.4   -0.2      2.5
Recreation-V                      UNCH    0.1      1.1
Education/Communication-V          0.4    0.1      1.6
Tobacco                            0.3   -0.1     -0.4
Commodities                        0.1   -0.5      0.5
Services                           0.2   UNCH      2.8
Airline Fares (Unadjusted)        -1.9   -2.6     -0.1
CPI-W                              0.2   -0.3      1.6
V-Dec 1997=100 base. CPI-W--Index for urban wage earners and
clerical workers.
 FORECAST:
 Reuters survey of economists forecast:
 U.S. Dec CPI +0.2 pct
 U.S. Dec CPI ex-food/energy +0.1 pct

[Starwind]

The full BLA report is at CONSUMER PRICE INDEX: DECEMBER 2003

[Starwind]

Fyi...

[RnMomof7]

Milk is up 10% , Natural gas 19% Water bill up 10% tomato product 5-7%

add to that the loss of purchasing power with the drop of the dollar...


If they took out all the stuff made in China ( the non essentials ) the cost of living would be up at least 5% this month

.02% is just not credible

[steve86]

Kind of an old thread?

But you're right, still not credible.