US Data: CPI-U - Percent Change Summary>

Release for: May 2018

Source: U.S. Labor Department

Data seasonally adjusted unless otherwise noted

                       NSA y/y unadj  Pct chg from prev month:

                        May-18 May-18   Feb-18   Mar-18   Apr-18   May-18

All items                  2.8    0.4      0.2     -0.1      0.2      0.2

 Food, beverage            1.2   -0.1      0.0      0.1      0.3      0.0

 Housing                   3.0    0.4      0.3      0.3      0.3      0.2

 Apparel                   1.4   -0.8      1.5     -0.6      0.3      0.0

 Transportation            5.9    1.6      0.0     -1.2      0.2      0.4

 Medical care              2.4    0.2     -0.1      0.4      0.1      0.2

 Recreation                0.2   -0.1      0.0      0.0     -0.4      0.0

 Edu/communction           0.5    0.2     -0.2     -0.2      0.0      0.4

 Other                     2.5    0.0      0.2      0.2      0.8      0.1

Energy                    11.7    3.6      0.1     -2.8      1.4      0.9

 Gasoline                 21.8    5.9     -0.9     -4.9      3.0      1.7

Food                       1.2    0.0      0.0      0.1      0.3      0.0

Excl food, energy          2.2    0.2      0.2      0.2      0.1      0.2

Indexes:

CPI (Adjusted)                         249.619  249.462  250.013  250.535

  unrounded pct change*                        -0.06290  0.22088  0.20879

Core CPI (Adjusted)                    255.751  256.200  256.450  256.889

  unrounded pct change*                         0.17556  0.09758  0.17118

*Changes calculated by MNI

  ** MNI Washington Bureau (202) 371-2121 **

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