producer price index

Energy prices remain elevated, which affects costs of transportation, materials, and power.

Prices are up for consumers, and the stores where they are buying goods are seeing some cost increases, too.

A look at promising inflation data, new tariffs, and the rest of the week’s economic news for the Weekly Wrap.

What happens with the producer price index often impacts the consumer price index.

The correlation between producer prices and consumer prices is not perfect, but what wholesalers pay has downstream effects.

And the war in the Middle East is to blame.

Businesses are passing costs on to customers, consolidating packages and, in some cases, taking shipping into their own hands.

The latest data on producer prices from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed an almost 49% rise in the price of vegetables last month.

New data on producer price inflation, or PPI, will be released on Friday. And while it’s not the inflation that faces consumers, it impacts decisions companies make about raising prices.

Wholesale inflation rose from 2.8% in October to 3.0% in November, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report. But where inflation is headed is as much about how consumers feel as it is about what wholesalers are paying.