Producer Price Index (PPI)
Market Sensitivity: Very high.
What Is It: Measures the change in prices paid by businesses.
Most Current News Release on the Internet: www.bls.gov/ppi
Home Web Address: www.bls.gov
Release Time: 8:30 a.m. (ET); announced two to three weeks after the reporting month ends.
Frequency: Monthly.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
Revisions: The monthly data is subject to one revision that is published four months later. Annual revisions are published in February with the January data, and it can go back five years.
Why Is It Important?
Inflation is public enemy number one to the financial markets. It can wipe out the value of bond portfolios, depress stock prices, and push interest rates higher. So ...
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