DOW playing at 9100
luring more suckers
9096 now
short, short, short
Wholesale food up .4%
Double that at the consumer end
PPI annual rate of 6%
We all depend on, greatly consume, and handsomely pay for food and energy, so how can you exclude?
Reuters
Energy Pushes Producer Prices Up
Friday July 11, 8:47 am ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sharp rise in energy costs pushed U.S. wholesale prices up at a steeper-than-expected rate last month but a closely watched gauge of core inflation eased slightly, the government said on Friday.
The Producer Price Index, which measures prices paid at the farm and factory gate, rose 0.5 percent in June, the Labor Department said. But it said much of that gain could be pinned on a steep 3.4 percent increase in energy prices.
Excluding food and energy, the so-called core PPI actually fell 0.1 percent, showing an absence of underlying inflation pressures that could keep alive fears of deflation -- a broad fall in consumer prices. The cost of food at the wholesale level rose 0.4 percent.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected producer prices to rise 0.2 percent, with the core rate up 0.1 percent. |
