Answer: The text does not provide a 12-month (annual) inflation rate for October 2026 because October 2025 data are unavailable; the latest available CPI-U change is a 0.4 percent seasonally adjusted increase in October 2026.
Status: Confirmed
Entry: finance/us-cpi
Revision: 1
Digest: sha256:60d933250d0076be (changes whenever the content changes)

Timeline:
  Created: 2026-11-12T10:44:35Z
  Last changed: 2026-11-12T10:44:35Z
  Last verified: 2026-11-12T11:34:10Z
  Next check: 2026-11-13T11:34:10Z
  Check interval: Daily
  Expected change: No fixed schedule

Data:
  Field | Value | Unit | Source | As of
  Monthly CPI-U change (October 2026) | 0.4 percent | percent | [1] | 2026-11-12
  12-month change availability | BLS cannot publish 12-month percent changes for October 2026 |  | [1] | 2026-11-12
  Release date | November 10, 2026 |  | [1] | 2026-11-12
  Reference month | OCTOBER 2026 |  | [1] | 2026-11-12
  CPI-U index level | 337.511 | index (1982-84=100) | [1] | 2026-11-12

Sources:
  [1] U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Consumer Price Index Summary - 2026 M10 Results". https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
      Role: primary. Accessed: 2026-11-12T11:34:10Z
      Quote: "The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in October" (Supports: Monthly CPI-U change (October 2026))
      Quote: "BLS cannot publish 12-month percent changes for October 2026 for indexes where October 2025 data are unavailable." (Supports: 12-month change availability)
      Quote: "Transmission of material in this release is embargoed until 8:30 a.m. (ET) Tuesday, November 10, 2026" (Supports: Release date)
      Quote: "CONSUMER PRICE INDEX - OCTOBER 2026" (Supports: Reference month)
      Quote: "increased to an index level of 337.511 (1982-84=100)" (Supports: CPI-U index level)
      Snapshot SHA-256: 0acdbf399524aa35c203f8dc0be7a2e6e98cf8b84ba380fa8062a510460f8ba5 (captured 2026-11-12T10:44:35Z)

Verification:
  Method: Automated extraction from [1] with deepseek-flash (JSON output, thinking disabled). Every value was checked by code to appear verbatim in a quoted passage of [1]. On this check the text of [1] was unchanged since 2026-11-12T10:44:35Z, so the values verified then were kept.
  Cross-check: not-available at 2026-11-12T11:34:10Z. No independent second source is configured for this entry
  Last successful check: 2026-11-12T11:34:10Z
  Last attempt: 2026-11-12T11:34:10Z

Notes and limitations:
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    latestN. (2026). What is the latest US inflation rate (CPI)? Revision 1, last verified 2026-11-12T11:34:10Z. https://latestn.com/finance/us-cpi (accessed 2026-11-12T12:52:54Z).

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      title        = {What is the latest US inflation rate (CPI)?},
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      year         = {2026},
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