Wednesday, January 15, 2014

It's The Economy Stupid: PPI

Producer Prices are up, BUT they climbed in 2013 by the least in 5 years.  There ain’t a whole lot of inflation.

 

Wholesale prices in the U.S., as measured by the Producer Price Index, climbed in December for the first time in three months to cap the

smallest annual increase in five years, showing companies face little pressure to charge more.

 

PPI in December rose 0.4% matching the median estimate of 79 economists surveyed by Bloomberg and followed a 0.1 percent drop in November.  The 1.2 increase in PPI for the calendar year was the smallest since 2008, when the financial crisis made the recession that

began in December 2007 even worse.  Scant signs of accelerating inflation should give Federal Reserve policy makers room to move

gradually as they wind down their unprecedented asset-purchase program.

 

Economic Event

Period

Economic Survey

Actual Reported

Original Prior

Revised Prior

MBA Mortgage Applications

Jan 10

--

11.9%

2.6%

--

Empire Manufacturing

Jan

3.5

12.51

0.98

2.22

PPI MoM

Dec

0.4%

0.4%

-0.1%

--

PPI Ex Food and Energy MoM

Dec

0.1%

0.3%

0.1%

--

PPI YoY

Dec

1.1%

1.2%

0.7%

--

PPI Ex Food and Energy YoY

Dec

1.3%

1.4%

1.3%

--

 

 

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“Veni, vidi, vici, vino - I came, I saw, I conquered, I partied.”  ~ Julius Caesar’s black sheep brother

 

John Broussard

Assistant State Treasurer

Chief Investment Officer

State of Louisiana

Department of the Treasury

225-342-0013

jbroussard@treasury.state.la.us

 

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