Consumer prices rose 2.8% in the 12 months through February, a slowdown from January's faster-than-expected 3% rate. This ...

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However, the consumer price index, excluding imputed rent from owner-occupied dwellings--which is used to calculate real wages--jumped by 3.8 percent, a significant increase. Of the total cash ...

Meanwhile, the Consumer Price Index used to calculate real wages also rose by 2.9 percent in September. The 0.1 percent dip is the result of subtracting the CPI's rate of increase from nominal wages.