Twenty years ago the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is responsible for the Consumer Price Index CPI and the Producer Price Index PPI, began a third price program, designed to track prices of goods in U.S. international trade. The InternationalPrice Program IPP, produces the U.S. Export Price...
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler The Breakfast Index, a leading indicator of inflation, takes the measure of price changes in a basket of commodities commonly used as breakfast foods. Last month's negative Breakfast Index reading seemed to have presaged the 0.9% decline in the Producer Price Index...
The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau Futures Price Index CRB provides an accurate prediction of Producer Price Index PPI behavior. The CRB is an estimated calculation of the PPI of 21 commodities. CRB data are reported on a real-time basis by tThe Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau Futures Price Index CRB provides...
WASHINGTON -- Despite the impact of the summer floods on vegetable crops along the Mississippi River, the rate of increase of wholesale food prices declined in August, rising to 1.6 percent on an annual, unadjusted basis, the Department of Labor reported in its monthly producer price index.
DYLAN RATIGAN, CNBC ANCHOR: This week brings the latest inflation data for a market already on Fed watch. On deck, tomorrow the Producer Price Index report and then Wednesday, the Consumer Price Index report. Think of it as wholesale and retail. ...
The U.S. Producer Price Index for Refrigerated warehousing and storage has been in calculation since January of 1992. Refrigerated warehousing and storage is of special interest because of the bundling of services that is inherent to the industry. Different refrigerated warehousing establishments offer different bundled services at unique rates in...
Ron Haruni submits: The U.S. Labor Department reported on Tuesday that the PPI Index for finished goods, an inflationary indicator which evaluates wholesale price levels in the economy, advanced 1.2% in July versus a consensus expected of 0.6%. This increase followed a 1.8% jump in June and a 1.4% rise...
Following January's hefty 1% increase in the finished consumer food portion of the Producer Price Index, February wholesale food prices fell a signficant 1.3%. The drop in the food portion of the PPI - the major indicator of food price changes bef Following...
Average prices for brass and copper plumbing products rose by less than 1% for the second year in a row during 2002. Through the first eleven months of 2002, the Labor Department's producer price index for these plumbing products had risen at an av ...
SYDNEY, Jan 20 Asia Pulse - Inflation at the producer level in Australia was a story of contrasting economic influences, economists said today. SYDNEY, Jan 20 Asia Pulse - Inflation at the producer level in Australia was a story of contrasting...
FOOD AND ENERGY PRICES helped boost wholesale prices 1.3%, the Labor Department reports, their biggest increase in three months. While the core producer price index PPI, which excludes food and energy, increased only 0.4%, it still doubled the prev FOOD AND ENERGY PRICES helped boost wholesale...
Plumbing prices plateau Average prices for plumbing fixtures and brass fittings produced by U.S. manufacturers were only 0.4 higher in November 2001 than in November 2000, according to data from the Labor Department's Producer Price Index (PP Plumbing...
The Fed is comfortable with above-trend growth, as long as inflation stays under control. Inflation has gone up recently, but it is still within the Fed's comfort zone of 1 to 2 percent. But the economy is gradually absorbing unused resources; productivity growth is slowing; oil prices remain at high...
Cadbury Schweppes, maker of Dairy Milk, Trident gum, and Snapple drinks, announced today that it would break up its confections and beverage divisions. The move comes just two days after activist shareholder and ex-owner of Snapple, Nelson Peltz, bought up a 3% stake in the company. Private-equity groups Blackstone Group...
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