mpc: 14 The US inflation indicators were mixed. Both the US `core' Consumer Price Index (CPI) and
the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC's) preferred `core' personal consumption expenditure
deflator inflation measures had eased a little in April, while the headline CPI measure had risen. But
there had been a recent acceleration in measured unit labour costs, which had increased by around
4½% in the year to 2005 Q1.
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