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Highlights:
Consumer prices advanced 0.4% in the 12 months to April, down from the 1.2% rise posted in March.On an unadjusted monthly basis, consumer prices fell 0.1% from March to April, after increasing 0.2% from February to March.
All-items Consumer Price Index (CPI):
- Of the eight major components in the CPI, upward pressure on the 12-month change came primarily from higher food prices.
- Mitigating the increase in the CPI was a substantial slowdown in costs for shelter, which rose 0.2% in the 12 months to April after increasing 2.1% in March.
- A 12-month decline of 8.0% in the cost of transportation in April, due primarily to 12-month declines in prices for both gasoline and passenger vehicles, also dampened the 12-month change in the CPI.
- The month-to-month fall in the CPI from March to April came primarily from a drop in natural gas prices.
Main contributors to the 12-month change in the CPI:
Main upward contributors:
- Food purchased from restaurants (+4.2%)
- Fresh vegetables (+26.0%)
- Mortgage interest cost (+3.2%)
- Passenger vehicle insurance premiums (5.9%)
Main downward contributors:
- Gasoline (-24.7%)
- Purchase and leasing of passenger vehicles (-8.3%)
- Natural gas (-17.5%)
- Fuel oil and other fuels (-33.5%)
- Homeowner’s replacement cost (-2.8%)
Main contributors to the monthly change in the CPI, not seasonally adjusted:
Main upward contributors:
- Gasoline (+1.0%)
Main downward contributors:
- Natural gas (-20.0%)
- Women’s clothing (-4.1%)
- Purchase and leasing of passenger vehicles (-1.0%)
