August inflation comes in slightly hotter-than-expected: Full analysis of the report

Welcome to Yahoo Finance's special coverage of the August CPI report. I'm Julie Heyman. The key inflation report just crossing the wire here and coming in at least on the headline number slightly hotter than estimated month over month 0.4% gain in August on the headline.If you strip out food and energy prices, volatile food and energy prices, you get 0.3% which is right in line with estimates and also unchanged from the prior month. uh the year-over-year number at 2.9% also in line with estimates and the co ...