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US producer price inflation remained muted in May across the board, another sign that tariffs have yet to result in higher prices for consumers and businesses.
Producer surplus is good for the economy because it motivates producers to make and supply goods and services, since they can earn more than their production costs.
WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - U.S. producer prices were unexpectedly unchanged in November amid cheaper energy goods, and underlying inflation pressures at the factory gate were muted.
Manufactured durable goods new orders rose to $343.59B in May, its highest level ever. This represents a 16.4% increase from ...
How Producer Price Index (PPI) Numbers Are Presented The BLS produces more than 10,000 product and industry price indexes each month, which it then uses to calculate the PPI.
Wholesale goods prices were up 0.6% last month and up 1.8% from a year ago. When excluding food and energy prices, producers’ goods costs were unchanged in December and up 2.1% year over year.
The Harvard School of Business last week issued a small opus entitled The Behavior of Consumption in Business Depression. Its author was Arthur R. Tebbutt, instructor in Business Statistics. It was ...
US inflation at the wholesale level continued its downward slide in March with annualized price increases sinking dramatically to 2.7% from an upwardly revised 4.9%, according to the Producer ...
The producer price index captures all this, and that’s why we care — it’s kind of like a Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come situation. November’s PPI numbers were complicated.
India is considering placing tariffs on some goods produced in the U.S. to counter the Trump administration’s duties on steel and aluminum products.