Cpi Us March 2024. Economists anticipate the overall cpi reading for march to show that consumer prices rose 0.3% on a monthly basis, down from 0.4% growth in february,. Headline consumer price index (cpi) rose by 0.4% month over month (m/m) in march, surpassing consensus expectations for a third straight month.
Table 1 compares the index values for january 2024 using the “new” weights (the official indexes based on the 2022 expenditure data) with the “old” weights (what. The headline cpi began at 2.3% in february 2020, fell to 5.1% in may 2020 and rose to 9.1% by june 2022, its highest level since the pandemic.