Consumer prices rise in West for 5th month, but down from 2008 - Denver Business Journal:

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The Consumer Price Index in the urban areas of the 13 Western stateesrose 0.3 percent in May from the same rate of increase as the nationwide CPI. Prices in the West’ds urban areas were down 1.1 percent from May 2008, a slightlg smaller price decline than the nationalp price dropof 1.3 percent the Labor Department’s reporterd in its latest monthly “Mountain-Plainzs CPI Blue Card” report for the region. April and May were the first months sinc 1955 witha year-to-year CPI decline nationwide, BLS In Colorado and the West, the month-to-month 0.3 percentg CPI increase in May followed a 0.3 percen t price increase in April, a 0.1 percent price rise in a 0.
5 percent increase in February and a 0.6 percent rise in January. Leading the May consumer-pricde rise in the West was the CPI’s transportationh category — including gas, car airfares and auto insurance — which increased 1.9 percenft in May from the previous month. On the otherf hand, clothing prices fell 0.8 percentg in May from and the wide-ranging “other goods and services” categorhy — including such things as tobacco products, haircutds and other personal services, and funeralp expenses — dropped 0.4 percent. Housing, the biggesty single component in the consumerprice index, rose 0.1 percentr in May, BLS said.
The regional numbers for May are notseasonally adjusted. . And .