Consumer Price Index (CPI) for April 2025
Earlier this morning, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for April 2025:
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CPI During April 2025: 320.795
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Consumer Price Index (CPI); Headline
Predicted: +0.3%
-> Actual: +0.311% (+0.996 point)
- Year-on-Year Change: +2.31% (+7.247 points)
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CPI, Minus Food + Energy (Core CPI)
Predicted: +0.3%
- > Actual: +0.27% (+0.882 point) M/M
- Year-on-Year Change: +2.78% (+8.837 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 April 2024: 313.548
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