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Index of Consumer Spending for September 2025
December 4, 2025
Headline consumer price growth accelerated to 2.4 per cent in September, up from 1.9 per cent in August. Contributors to this acceleration include a slower decline in travel tours and stronger growth in grocery prices. The most significant driver for the accelerated growth was a smaller decline in gasoline prices year-over-year (4.1 per cent in September compared to 12.7 per cent in August).
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