US consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in September, the government reported, continuing the American economy's uncanny combination of growth, high employment levels, and low inflation. So far this year, consumer prices are rising at a rate, extrapolated for the whole of 1997, of 1.8 percent. Last year's rise: 3.3 percent.
Restrained Prices
US consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in September, the government reported, continuing the American economy's uncanny combination of growth, high employment levels, and low inflation. So far this year, consumer prices are rising at a rate, extrapolated for the whole of 1997, of 1.8 percent. Last year's rise: 3.3 percent.
