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Fuel Costs Push Wholesale Prices Up 

Outside the volatile energy and food categories, the "core" rate of inflation, having fallen 0.2 percent in January, rose 0.3 percent last month. . . The government said the increase in the core inflation rate mostly stemmed from a hefty 6.3 percent rise in cigarette prices, the biggest gain in five months. economists said. Excluding cigarettes, the core would have shown no change. [This graph only]

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