The personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy – the Fed’s preferred measure of underlying inflation – is projected to have risen by 0.3% in October from September, and by 2.8% from a year earlier, in what would be the largest advance since April. The personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy – the Fed’s preferred measure of underlying inflation – is projected to have risen by 0.3% in October from September, and by 2.8% from a year earlier, in what would be the largest advance since April. Economic Times