CPI Live Updates: Inflation Persists in U.S. EconomyThe New York Times live-blogs October's Consumer Price Index report, which showed prices up 0.4 percent and core prices up 0.3 percent, with no annual rate released after missing shutdown data, and inflation wiping out October's wage gains. Reporters and analysts flag what follows: Jeff Ostrowski expects mortgage rates to stay above 7 percent, Fed governor Waller expects energy prices to remain elevated, and the Fed is widely expected to raise rates again in December.