US Import Prices Increase From September to November
U.S. import prices increased 0.4% over the two months from September to November, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Thursday.
The 43-day government shutdown prevented collection of survey data for October. As a result, the BLS did not publish the monthly changes in import prices for October and November. But monthly changes for a limited number of indexes calculated from nonsurvey data were published.
Import prices edged up 0.1% in the 12 months through November. The longest shutdown in history also prevented the collection of data to...
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