Not exact matches
In March, the Fed said that
inflation excluding
food and energy had «continued to
run below 2 percent» on a 12 - month basis.
Excluding
food and energy, the PCE price index rose 0.2 %, which further indicates that
inflation is still
running at a modest level.
On a 12 - month basis,
inflation has declined recently and, like the measure excluding
food and energy prices, is
running somewhat below 2 percent.»
Two months ago, stripping out
food and energy, the year - over-year rate of «core» CPI
inflation was
running at 2.7 %.
A supermarket
food price war and lower petrol price
inflation are expected to have brought the headline consumer price index measure of
inflation down for the sixth month
running in March.
On a 12 - month basis,
inflation has declined recently and, like the measure excluding
food and energy prices, is
running somewhat below 2 percent.»
As of May 2014,
food price
inflation was
running at 2.46 % (year over year) and possibly heading above 4 % by late 2014 or early 2015.
Even with higher prices in January, core
inflation (which excludes
food and energy prices) is
running at only 1.8 %, still below the Fed's 2 % target rate.11
Food price
inflation is
running.