producer price index

Japan's producer price index rose 25 percent from 1976 to 1981.

That was inspired, he said, by the small movement in the producer price Index.

However, United States now report a producer price index instead.

The producer price index rose 14.6 percent in May.

Bad weather can be blamed for more than a third of the leap in the producer price index last month.

Excluding food and energy prices, the producer price index was unchanged in October.

The American producer price index declined at a 1.6 percent rate last month, its steepest drop in many years.

Producer price index measures the pressure being put on producers by the costs of their raw materials.

Energy accounts for just under 14 percent of the Producer Price Index.

For all of last year, the Producer Price Index rose just under 5 percent.

Statistics Canada said today that the producer price index fell by 1.6 percent in the 12 months to July.

The producer price index jumped 1 percent in March, reflecting an increase in energy prices.

It was the first time the Producer Price Index had been flat in nine months.

While the Producer Price Index rose, two other indexes fell.

Otherwise, the Producer Price Index would have been flat after excluding food and energy.

The Producer Price Index, however, does not include imported goods, most services or taxes.

That helped keep the rise in the Producer Price Index to a modest 0.2 percent.

Excluding those two components, the Producer Price Index jumped 0.6 percent.

The report showed that the core producer price index for finished goods, which excludes food and energy prices, was unchanged.

Including food and energy, the Producer Price Index fell by one-tenth of 1 percent.

The others were favorable reports on the consumer and producer price indexes and March retail sales.

That same month, the Producer Price Index of all finished goods rose 3 percent from a year earlier.

July's Producer Price Index rose by just two-tenths of a percent.

The Producer Price Index rose 0.8 percent, and consumer confidence jumped so far this month.

After today's unchanged Producer Price Index it's hard to come to another conclusion."