(Reuters) – U.S. prices stabilized in May from a month earlier and decelerated from a year earlier, data from the Commerce Department showed on Friday.
The PCE consumer price index was stable in May, after an increase of 0.3% last month.
Over one year, the index decelerates to 2.6%, in line with the forecasts of economists polled by Reuters, after an increase of 2.7% in April.
The “core PCE” underlying inflation index, which excludes the volatile elements such as energy and food products, also slowed to +0.1% in May, in line with economists’ expectations. after an increase of 0.3% (revised) in April.
Over one year, the core index rose to +2.6%, in line with economists’ expectations, after +2.8% in April.
US household consumption spending rose 0.3% after falling 0.1% in April, while household income rose 0.5% in May, slightly below the consensus (+0.4%) and after +0.3% in April.
Following the release of these statistics, on Wall Street, futures contracts on the main indices suggested an opening up 0.01% for the Dow Jones, 0.22% for the Standard & Poor’s 500 and 0.29% for the Nasdaq.
(Written by Mathias de Rozario, edited by Claude Chendjou)
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