Williams said, “There are special practical factors that are actually related to their failure to collect data in October and the first half of November. As a result, I think some categories of data are distorted, which may have lowered the CPI reading by about 0.1 percentage points.”

Williams said, “There are special practical factors that are actually related to their failure to collect data in October and the first half of November. As a result, I think some categories of data are distorted, which may have lowered the CPI reading by about 0.1 percentage points.”