Economic Trends

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  • The CPI was flat in April, largely because falling gasoline prices offset modest increases elsewhere in the basket. But the real news in the latest price report was that on a year-over-year basis the CPI is up just 2.3 percent as of the end of April, continuing its slowdown since it hit a high of 3.9 percent last September.

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