Daily coverage · Weekly briefing Mondays · Maya Reyes
CPI, rent, gas, groceries and consumer rates. What a household pays this month versus last.
EIA's weekly survey put U.S. retail diesel at $6.529 a gallon for the week of September 21, a record 74 percent above last year, even as WTI crude slid to about $91, and the gap is a tax on everything that arrives by truck.
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The FOMC lifted rates to a 3.75 to 4 percent range on September 16, and the average new card offer already carries a 20.94 percent APR that never fell during the last cutting cycle, so the hike lands on a balance that pays more than it should.
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The tuition index jumped 0.5 percent in August and 2.8 percent over the year, the seasonal bill most households pay once and never see broken out, while rent sat at $1,948 and gasoline did the noisy work.
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Henry Hub gas sat at $2.81 on September 9 with the highest pre-winter storage since 2016, the one cost-of-living line pointing down while electricity runs 30 percent above last year.
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Floodwater idled the 275,000 barrel-a-day Joliet refinery, five Great Lakes states paid about 40 cents more a gallon in one week, and the October CPI inherits the whole move.
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The AAA national average hit $4.4786 a gallon on September 21, about 40 percent above last year, even as crude fell in Monday trade; September CPI, due October 14, will book most of the move.
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August PPI ran 5.4% over the year against 3.4% CPI, and core producer prices rose 0.88% in one month; the two-point gap is the holiday price level in waiting.
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Regular gasoline hit $4.319 a gallon in the week of September 14, a third straight weekly rise that puts September CPI on course for an energy surprise.
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August CPI ran 3.4%, but the electricity index jumped 5.5% in one month and sits 30.2% above last year. Gas at $4.32, mortgage 6.95%: the household math.
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Diesel set an all-time AAA record on Sep 16 while regular gasoline climbed more modestly; the household impact runs through freight and Northeast heating oil, not the pump alone.
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The national gasoline average jumped 16 cents in one week and the 30 year mortgage hit 6.95 percent, a one two punch that adds $51 a week to the cost of waiting on a home and $182 a month versus last year.
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The EIA's week of September 14 survey put regular gasoline at $4.319 a gallon and diesel at $6.285, with every region above $6 on diesel and the cost now working into shelf prices.
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