The Producer Price Index is where tariffs will show up first, whether or not companies can pass on those cost increases. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. From mid-2024 through January 2025, before any new tariffs had been […]
January was up-revised to worst increase since August 2023, PPI inflation doubling in 12 months. February unchanged, waiting for up-revision. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. It happened again. We’ve been discussing this issue here for many months: […]
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. As has been the case for many months, today’s Producer Price Index for January included big up-revisions of the prior month, driven by a whopper up-revision for services which account for two-thirds […]
The problem is in services, which account for 67% of PPI. But goods prices are re-accelerating too. The whole inflation scenario has changed. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The prior months’ data of the Producer Price Index […]
Six-month core PPI: +3.4%. Six-month services PPI: +3.7%. Year-over-year, both also accelerated further. But energy prices plunged. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The plunge in energy prices caused the Producer Price Index to inch up by just […]
But a drop in energy prices had a soothing effect on overall PPI, which also accelerated, but by less. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The Core Producer Price Index bounced back sharply in August from the negative […]
Whiplash-causing month-to-month services PPI fell in July after hot readings in prior months. Core goods PPI is well-behaved. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The sharp deceleration on a year-over-year basis of the core Producer Price Index and […]
Services knocked it out of the ballpark. Not helpful for the Fed-favored core PCE price index later in May, which includes some of those services. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The Producer Price Index, which is always […]
Including by 7.9% annualized for the not-seasonally adjusted PPI, worst since June 2022. So we’ll take a look. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The Producer Price Index data got a lot of attention today because it didn’t […]
Reheating services inflation isn’t a surprise. But the PPI for finished core goods saps hopes for goods “deflation” to continue to hold down overall inflation. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The Producer Price Index for final demand […]
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