Consumer Price Index (CPI) for March 2025
Earlier this morning, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for March 2025:
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CPI During March 2025: 319.799
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Consumer Price Index (CPI); Headline
Predicted: +0.2%
-> Actual: +0.225% (+0.717 point)
- Year-on-Year Change: +2.39% (+7.467 points)
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CPI, Minus Food + Energy (Core CPI)
Predicted: +0.2%
- > Actual: +0.209% (+0.681 point) M/M
- Year-on-Year Change: +2.79% (+8.845 points)
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The above, yellow- and blue-highlighted figures represent month-to-month and year-on-year changes (not seasonally adjusted) in prices for a specific group of goods and services that consumers buy, and is, therefore, a very important part of the overall inflation picture for the country.
The "predicted" figure is what economists were expecting, while the "actual" is the true or real figure.
General categories that constitute the CPI are:
- Healthcare
- Housing
- Clothing
- Communications
- Education
- Transportation
- Food and Beverages
- Recreation
- Miscellaneous Goods and Services (grooming expenses, etc.)
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CPI During March 2024: 312.332
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