
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, September 19, 1995                   TAG: 9509190030
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-6   EDITION: METRO  
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ROANOKE REGIONAL ECONOMIC INDICTAORS

The Consumer Price Index, the nation's prime measure of inflation, rose a scant 0.1 percent last month, to 152.9 points from 152.5 for July. It was 2.6 percent higher than August 1994's 149.0.

That means a collection of goods and services that cost $149 a year ago carried a price tag of $152.90 at the end of last month.

If the Department of Labor Statistics still used 1967 as a base year, instead of an average for 1982-84, the index figure would have stood at 458.0, meaning that goods and services that cost $100 in 1967 would have cost $458 at the end of August.

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