Fred Harteis News Articles - Rapidly falling energy prices helped bring overall consumer prices down by half a percentage point in September, the Labor Department reported today.
Excluding the volatile prices of food and energy, the consumer price index, which measures prices Americans pay at the retail level, rose by a fairly modest 0.2 percent, just as it did in July and August.
The price report, and another that prefigured a further cooling of the housing market, were taken as signs that the economy was slowing gradually and ... more »
