Pete Rathburn is a copy editor and fact-checker with expertise in economics and personal finance and over twenty years of experience in the classroom. The CPI ... the producer price index (PPI ...

As the 10-year rate approaches 5%, the markets are very interest rate focused, and a major driver of rates is inflation. This coming week we get two pieces of inflation data with the Producer ...

so changes in CPI over time can be used to estimate the rate of inflation as it affects the average citizen. In the same way, changes in PPI over time are used to estimate wholesale, or “back-en ...

Crude oil prices rallied sharply following the release of better-than-expected US CPI data, fueled by optimism about ...

A subdued December producer-price index reading ... investors stressed out over the prospect of a re-acceleration of inflation, but it's the December consumer-price index reading due in just ...

Excluding food and energy, "core" prices rose 3.5% year over year ... Tuesday’s PPI reading comes one day ahead of a highly anticipated release of the December Consumer Price Index (CPI).

Expectations are similar in terms of anticipated movement among these numbers to today’s PPI report: up incrementally year-over-year to an expected +2.9%. Everything else looks flat for CPI ...

“On a more constructive note, month-over-month PPI inflation jumped 0.2%, well below expectations of 0.4%,” it added. “Stocks are up sharply on this data, but CPI inflation tomorrow will be ...