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Producer Price Index (PPI) Increased Unexpectedly in November

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Producer Price Index (PPI): A worker in a wholesale foods production and distribution warehouse.

The Labor Department reported on Friday the Producer Price Index (PPI), a gauge of prices at the wholesale level rose 0.3% in November, beating flat expectations. The gain followed two consecutive months of decline in the PPI,

Excluding the volatile food and energy components–producer prices rose 0.3%–more than the 0.1% gain economists’ expected.

In the 12 months through November, the PPI lost 1.1% after shedding 1.6% in October. November marked the 10th straight 12-month decrease in the index. Economists had forecast the PPI unchanged last month and sliding 1.4 percent from a year ago.

Table A. Monthly and 12-month percent changes in selected final demand price indexes, seasonally adjusted
Month Total
final
demand
Final demand goods Final demand services Change
in final
demand
from 12
months
ago
(unadj.)
Total Foods Energy Less
foods
and
energy
Total Trade Transportation
and
warehousing
Other

2014

Nov.

-0.3 -0.8 0.1 -3.7 -0.1 0.0 -0.4 0.3 0.1 1.3

Dec.

-0.3 -1.2 -0.1 -6.6 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.0 0.2 0.9

2015

Jan.

-0.7 -1.9 -0.9 -10.1 0.1 -0.1 0.5 -1.0 -0.2 0.0

Feb.

-0.4 -0.4 -1.6 0.0 0.0 -0.5 -1.6 -0.9 0.1 -0.5

Mar.

0.0 0.1 -1.0 1.2 0.0 0.1 0.2 -0.3 0.1 -0.9

Apr.

-0.1 -0.6 -1.0 -2.6 0.0 0.2 -0.1 -0.5 0.4 -1.1

May

0.5 1.5 1.4 6.5 0.2 -0.1 0.1 0.2 -0.1 -0.8

June

0.4 0.5 0.5 1.6 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 -0.5

July(1)

0.1 -0.2 -0.7 -0.6 0.0 0.3 0.6 0.2 0.2 -0.7

Aug.(1)

-0.1 -0.5 0.7 -2.9 -0.3 0.2 0.2 -0.7 0.2 -0.8

Sept.

-0.5 -1.2 -0.8 -5.9 0.0 -0.4 -0.4 -0.7 -0.3 -1.1

Oct.

-0.4 -0.4 -0.8 0.0 -0.3 -0.3 -0.7 0.1 -0.1 -1.6

Nov.

0.3 -0.1 0.3 -0.6 -0.1 0.5 1.2 0.3 0.1 -1.1

Footnotes
(1) Some of the figures shown above and elsewhere in this release may differ from those previously reported because data for July 2015 have been revised to reflect the availability of late reports and corrections by respondents.

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