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U.S. Producer Price Index. 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. It is published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and ...
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 producer price index for final demand rose 0.2% last month after an upwardly revised 0.1% gain in September, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said. The increase in the PPI was ...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a 39.6% spike in overall input construction costs since February 2020, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of BLS PPI data.
The Producer Price Index, which measures the average price changes that businesses pay to suppliers, rose at a slower pace of 0.9% for the 12 months ended in November, down from a 1.2% annual ...
The following reports on economic indicators are reported by United States government agencies: Business activity. Wholesale Inventories. Industrial Production (Federal Reserve) Capacity Utilization. Regional Manufacturing Surveys (purchasing managers' organizations and Federal Reserve banks) Philadelphia Fed Index (Federal Reserve Bank of ...
In June, the PPI excluding energy, food and trade was flat for the month and on an annual basis slowed to 3.1% from 3.3% in May, BLS data show. Inflation still ‘dying on the vine’
Price index. A price index (plural: "price indices" or "price indexes") is a normalized average (typically a weighted average) of price relatives for a given class of goods or services in a given region, during a given interval of time. It is a statistic designed to help to compare how these price relatives, taken as a whole, differ between ...