Summary Box: Consumer prices fall again, break for shoppers' pocketbooks

Published November 20, 2014

RELIEF FOR POCKETBOOKS: Consumer prices dipped for the second straight month. Less expensive energy prices were the main factor behind the decline. Food prices were flat.

GOOD FOR THE FED, TOO: Tame inflation means the Federal Reserve has leeway to keep holding a key interest rate at a record low near zero when it meet next week and probably into much of next year as well.

RESTRAINING FORCES: The tepid economic recovery is keeping consumers cautious. That makes it harder for companies to jack up prices.

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