Wholesale goods prices were up 0.6% last month and up 1.8% from a year ago. When excluding food and energy prices, producers’ goods costs were unchanged in December and up 2.1% year over year.
It’s likely U.S. shoppers would see prices rise for a wide range of items, including food, gas, clothing, consumer ...
We must now explain how scarce resources are allocated in the production of various consumer goods in the market economy. The generation of consumer goods, as will be shown, is a complex process in ...
WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - U.S. producer prices rose less than expected in December as higher costs for goods were partially offset by stable services prices, suggesting inflation remained on ...
The PPI is a measure of the weighted average price of all first-stage goods (like metals, lumber, and natural gas) produced in the U.S. The producer price index, or PPI, is a monthly estimate of ...
The December figure marked a deceleration from monthly producer-price increases in November, when prices rose by 0.4%.
The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods rose 1.1 percent in December, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on January 13. This advance followed ...