Focus on Prices and Spending | Consumer Price Indexes

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Focus on Prices and Spending, Consumer Price Indexes, Volume 1, Number 10

Chart 1. CPI-U percent changes: All Items, food, energy, and all items less food and energy for 2009, first, second and third quarters, 2010.
Category	2009 change, not seasonally adjusted	2010 1st quarter change, seasonally adjusted annual rate	2010 2nd quarter change, seasonally adjusted annual rate	2010 3rd quarter change, seasonally adjusted annual rate
All items	2.7	0.9	-1.5	2.7
Food	-0.5	2.3	0.6	1.6
Energy	18.2	9.2	-25.7	24.5
All items less food and energy	1.8	-0.2	1.3	0.7