(Bloomberg) -- A jump in fuel costs last month probably contributed to the biggest increase in U.S. consumer prices in almost a year, keeping the Federal Reserve on guard against a pickup in inflation.
Prices rose 0.6 percent, the most since April 2006, after a 0.4 percent February increase, based on the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News ahead of a Labor Department report today. Core prices, which exclude food and energy, rose 0.2 percent for a second month, the survey showed.
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