For this reason, it includes imported products and services, and sales tax is included in its component prices The producer price index (PPI), on the other hand, measures the cost of goods and ...

The consumer price index, a much-anticipated measure of inflation, comes in Wednesday. It’ll tell us how prices paid by consumers changed in December. The producer price index, though ...

The Labor Department reported Tuesday that its producer price index — which tracks inflation before it hits consumers — rose 0.2% last month from November, down from a 0.4% gain the month before.

The Producer Price Index for final demand advanced 0.2 percent while the consensus ahead of the release was a rise of 0.4 percent. Final demand prices rose 0.4 percent in November and 0.2 percent ...