Stories Related to Gasoline Pushes Up U.s. Consumer Prices

By REUTERS, New York Times
Wed, 07/15/2009 - 7:07am

The 0.7 percent pace in June was slightly faster than expected, but the core inflation measure remained relatively tame.

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