PPI News Updates

The Labor Department reported that its producer price index rose 0.5% from February and 4% from March 2025. Energy prices surged 8.5% from February.

The Labor Department reported March 18 that its producer price index rose 0.7% from January, and 3.4% from February 2025. 

The producer price index rose 0.3% from a month earlier after a 0.1% decline in August, according to the BLS. The increase matched the median projection in a Bloomberg survey of economists.

The Labor Department reported Aug. 14 that PPI rose 0.9% last month from June, the biggest jump in more than three years. Compared with a year earlier, wholesale prices rose 3.3%.

WASHINGTON — Wholesale price increases eased in July, suggesting that inflation pressures are further cooling as the Federal Reserve moves closer to cutting interest rates.

WASHINGTON — U.S. producer prices rose in March from a year earlier at the fastest pace in nearly a year, but the gain was less than economists expected. 

The gain in U.S. wholesale prices reflected higher food and services costs, signaling modest inflation, a Labor Department report showed July 13 in Washington.

Wholesale prices in the U.S. declined in March for the first time since August 2016, a sign broader inflation will accelerate only gradually, a Labor Department report showed April 13.

Little more than 2½ years from now, the global fleet of merchant ships will have to reduce drastically how much sulfur their engines belch into the atmosphere.

Shortly after Donald Trump was elected president Nov. 8, the stock prices of a slew of shipping companies soared by more than 1000% on hopes that commodity prices would rise and U.S. manufacturing would rebound, spurring a surge in shipments of everything from iron ore to computer parts.