WASHINGTON (AP) — Measures of U.S. inflation in September showed that the pace of price increases is still grinding lower, though at a slow and uneven pace.
Prices in the United States increased 0.4 percent from August to September, a slowdown from the previous month. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department also showed that annual consumer inflation in September was unchanged from a 3.7 percent rise in August.
And underlying inflation declined a bit: So-called core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs, climbed 4.1 percent in September from 12 months earlier, down from a 4.3 percent year-over-year pace in […]
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