---
source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
url: https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/
alternate_url: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_03112026.htm
document_type: json
date_retrieved: 2026-03-15
period: February 2026
parent_publication: Consumer Price Index (CPI) — BLS data release (API fallback)
indicators_covered: [Core Inflation Rate MoM, Inflation Rate YoY, Core Inflation Rate YoY, CPI seasonally adjusted, CPI, Inflation Rate MoM]
retrieval_note: Direct BLS news-release page was inaccessible from runtime (HTTP 403 Akamai). Used api.bls.gov (same institution domain) as primary-source fallback for official CPI series values.
---

# CPI s.a — United States (February 2026)

## Source retrieval status
The intended parent publication is the BLS **Consumer Price Index** news release for 2026-03-11 (12:30 UTC release window). The direct news-release HTML endpoint on `www.bls.gov` returned HTTP 403 from this runtime. Because the source institution requires BLS primary data, this artifact uses `api.bls.gov` (official BLS domain) as a fallback primary source and preserves the exact numeric series used to compute the indicator.

## Indicator mapping and verification
- Requested indicator: **CPI seasonally adjusted**
- BLS series used: **CUSR0000SA0**
- Event payload actual: **327.46**
- Event payload previous: **326.588**
- Computed from BLS series (rounded): **actual 327.46**, **previous 326.588**

This confirms the event values are consistent with BLS-published CPI data for the stated period.

## Recent observations (BLS series CUSR0000SA0)
| Year | Period | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | February | 327.460 |
| 2026 | January | 326.588 |
| 2025 | December | 326.031 |
| 2025 | November | 325.063 |
| 2025 | September | 324.245 |
| 2025 | August | 323.291 |
| 2025 | July | 322.169 |
| 2025 | June | 321.435 |
| 2025 | May | 320.620 |
| 2025 | April | 320.302 |

## Method and units
- Frequency: Monthly
- Country: United States
- Provider: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Category family: Consumer Price Index (All items / Core, seasonally adjusted and not seasonally adjusted)
- Unit handling:
  - `index` indicators use the raw index level from the BLS series.
  - `percent_mom` is calculated as `(current_month / prior_month - 1) * 100`.
  - `percent_yoy` is calculated as `(current_month / same_month_prior_year - 1) * 100`.
- Rounding: one decimal place for rate indicators to match market-calendar convention.

## Coverage of the parent release basket
The same CPI release family covers all requested items in this payload: headline CPI index (NSA), seasonally adjusted CPI index, headline inflation month-on-month, headline inflation year-on-year, core inflation month-on-month, and core inflation year-on-year. Even though the human-readable release page could not be fetched in this environment, the underlying BLS values for February 2026 are present in the official API response and match the event payload values.