Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A producer price index (PPI) is a price index that measures the average changes in prices received by domestic producers for their output. Formerly known as the wholesale price index between 1902 and 1978, the index is made up of over 16,000 establishments providing approximately 64,000 price quotations that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) compiles each month to represent thousands ...
US producer price index 2005-2022. The Producer Price Index (PPI) is the official measure of producer prices in the economy of the United States. It measures average changes in prices received by domestic producers for their output. The PPI was known as the Wholesale Price Index, or WPI, up to 1978.
The producer price index for final demand jumped 0.4% last month, the largest gain since June, after an upwardly revised 0.3% increase in October, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
The Labor Department reported Thursday that its producer price index — which tracks inflation before it reaches consumers — rose 0.4% last month from October, up from 0.3% the month before.
Following the release of the PPI data, economists raised their estimates for the October core PCE price index increase to a 0.28%-0.32% range. That was up from the 0.2%-0.26% band after the CPI ...
Price indices are represented as index numbers, number values that indicate relative change but not absolute values (i.e. one price index value can be compared to another or a base, but the number alone has no meaning). Price indices generally select a base year and make that index value equal to 100.
What links here; Upload file; Special pages; Printable version; Page information; Get shortened URL
According to the BLS, “The Producer Price Index (PPI) is a family of indexes that measures the average change over time in selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services ...