Tuesday, October 19, 2010

CPI-U for September released

The CPI-U value for September was released. The new value of 218.439 is up slightly from August’s value of 218.312. More importantly, we now have the full 6 month view of CPI-U used in the November I Bond’s rate.

Based on the March value of 217.631 and September value of 218.439, we know that the inflation-linked portion of the November I Bond will be 0.37%.

March April May June July Aug. Sept.
217.631 218.009 218.178 217.965 218.011 218.312 218.439

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