Yearly rate of CPI inflation climbs to highest level since Feb 1982
Tiger Newspress2022-01-12
U.S. consumer prices soared last year by the most in nearly four decades, illustrating red-hot inflation that sets the stage for the start of Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes as soon as March.
The consumer price index climbed 7% in 2021, according to Labor Department data released Wednesday. The widely followed inflation gauge rose 0.5% from November, exceeding forecasts.
The median forecasts in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for a 7% annual gain and a 0.4% advance in the monthly measure.
Excluding the volatile food and energy components, so-called core prices rose 0.6% from the prior month and 5.5% from a year earlier.
Dow futures up 0.4%; S&P 500 futures climb 0.4%; Nasdaq-100 futures advance 0.5%.
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