January 2019 Consumer Price Index — 2019-02-13

(NOTE: This news release was reissued on February 13, 2019, correcting the following sentence: �The index for all items less food and energy increased 0.2 percent in January for the fifth consecutive month.� The original sentence stated it was the fourth consecutive month.) The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) was unchanged in January on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 1.6 percent before seasonal adjustment. The energy index declined for the third consecutive month, offsetting increases in the indexes for all items less food and energy and for food. All the major energy component indexes declined in January, with the gasoline index falling 5.5 percent. The food index increased 0.2 percent, with the index for food at home rising 0.1 percent and the food away from home index increasing 0.3 percent.