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Prices charged for U.S. consumer products excluding food and energy eased last month, adding to evidence of slowing inflation that may let the Federal Reserve keep holding interest rates steady.
The consumer price index rose 0.4 percent in July, following June's 0.2 percent increase, the Labor Department said today in Washington. Excluding food and energy costs, so-called core prices rose 0.2 percent, the smallest increase since February, after a 0.3 percent gain a month earlier.
The lower reading on core prices comes a day after the government reported that inflation remained unexpectedly tame at the wholesale level last month. Together, the reports bear out Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's forecast of slowing inflation and suggest the central bank may again refrain from raising interest rates at its next meeting Sept. 20.
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