Each month to month increase has to be different, obviously. You are not simply multiplying or dividing by twelve. In other words, prices rose 3.37% from April to May. There is no correlation between the numbers.
That must be what they meant. Generally, when governments publish inflation stats for a month they always annualize the number.
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Yeah. The way the CNBC article was written was confusing.
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Thanks for this chart.
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