negative inflation

Inflation goes negative amid drop in fuel prices; A local consumer price index is on track for its first full year of deflation.

Type: Press Coverage
Published Date: August 15, 2009
Author: Svaldi, Aldo

The Denver Post

Collapsing energy and transportation prices quenched inflation in the metro area in the first half of 2009, according to a report Friday from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The consumer price index for Denver-Boulder-Greeley decreased 0.6 percent between the first half of 2008 and the first half of 2009.

Inflation ran at a hot 3.9 percent rate last year.

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