Price index declined .3% in November

The Consumer Price Index for Western states fell 0.3 percent in November, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday. The CPI grew 1.2 percent in the previous 12 months.

The aggregate index for energy fell 1.1 percent for the month but was up 11.5 percent in the year-over-year period. The index for all items except food and energy fell 0.2 percent for the month but was up 0.8 percent annually.

The housing index, accounting for about 45 percent of the all-items index, fell 0.7 percent during the month and 0.9 percent during the year.

Using the bureau's system, a market basket of goods and services that cost $100 in 1982-84 would have cost $219.73 last month.