WASHINGTON – Inflation slowed to 0.1 percent in December, as the continuing weakness in the economy prevented companies from raising prices, according to Bloomberg News.
The December results brought the final 2009 change in the consumer price index to 2.7 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which indicated that inflation excluding the often volatile food and energy costs was 0.1 percent as well.
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