 Lower prices. I'm Chris Foster, Fox News. Another sign inflation's cooling off. The Labor Department's Consumer Price Index is a tenth of a percent lower in June. Most economists were expecting a small increase in consumer prices. For the year ending in June, the CPI rose three percent. Energy prices declined in June, though food prices rose slightly. Core CPI, excluding food and energy, rose less than expected, one tenth of a percent, up 3.3 percent on an annual basis. Fox's