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Weekly calendar Monday Economic data: Wholesale inventories, month-over-month, October final (0.2% prior); New York Fed one-year inflation expectations, November (2.87% prior)
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 ...
The FD-ID system replaced the PPI "stage-of-processing" (SOP) system as PPI's primary aggregation model with the release of data for January 2014. The scope of the SOP system was narrower than the PPI index. [4] Over 600 FD-ID PPIs are available measuring price change for goods, services, and construction sold to final demand and intermediate ...
Tuesday's report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that its producer price index (PPI) — which tracks the price changes companies see — rose 3.3% from the year prior, up from the 3% ...
Average weekly initial jobless claims for unemployment insurance — The CB reverses the value of this component from positive to negative because a positive reading indicates a loss in jobs. The initial jobless-claims data is more sensitive to business conditions than other measures of unemployment, and as such leads the monthly unemployment ...
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The Federal Reserve will be front-and-center for investors this week as it tees up for a long-anticipated liftoff on interest rates likely to come Wednesday. The latest print on producer prices ...
The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index is a consumer confidence index published monthly by the University of Michigan. The index is normalized to have a value of 100 in the first quarter of 1966. [1] Each month at least 500 telephone interviews are conducted of a contiguous United States sample. Fifty core questions are asked. [2]