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WASHINGTON, May 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Consumer Price Index chromatic 0.4 proportionality in April, slightly inferior than gains made in Feb and March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday.

Prices chromatic in line with expectations, coming in inferior than the 0.5 proportionality acquire of the preceding two months. In a continuing pattern, however, food and render prices pushed the finger higher, patch ordered prices, which ignore the influences of food and fuel, remained subdued.

Core prices, ofttimes cited by the U.S. agent Reserve as evidence that inflation has not distribute into generalized merchandise pricing, climbed 0.2 proportionality in April, twice as fast as March, but ease inferior than the Fed's target.

On an period basis, ordered prices chromatic 1.3 percent. The FRS has ordered a direct for ordered toll inflation at inferior than 2 proportionality on an period basis.

In explaining FRS policy at a past press briefing, FRS Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central slope considered past toll inflation for food and render to be based largely on temporary factors. Crude oil prices, meanwhile, have fallen from about $115 per containerful on New York at the modify of Apr to about $99 per containerful Friday.

Energy costs in Apr climbed 2.2 proportionality compared to March, mass a uprise of 3.5 proportionality in March. Food prices chromatic 0.4 proportionality after ascension 0.8 proportionality a month earlier.