As the 10-year rate approaches 5%, the markets are very interest rate focused, and a major driver of rates is inflation. This coming week we get two pieces of inflation data with the Producer ...

As a later overlay chart will illustrate, the final demand and finished goods indexes remain highly correlated. In March, the ...

Housing-related prices accounted for more than half the increase in the headline CPI last month. The PPI measures a basket of prices of goods and services at the wholesale level in the U.S., from ...

The producer price index, like the consumer price index (CPI), is an important economic indicator calculated and published monthly by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The consumer price index ...

demonstrating the higher volatility of core PPI than core CPI. This relationship is further illustrated in the next chart.

The second shoe on March price-inflation levels fell this morning with a new Producer Price Index (PPI ... mirroring yesterday’s retail Consumer Price Index (CPI), in that they are tracking ...

CPI falls in March, missing forecasts PPI falls at fastest pace in four months ... poll forecast for prices to remain flat. The line chart shows China's consumer index and producer price index.