October’s consumer prices data go some way to underlining that price deflation in the US economy is confined to the energy sector. That said, we wouldn’t be surprised if some of the recent fall in gasoline prices filtered into core inflation, although not enough to prevent the Fed from hiking interest rates early next year.
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