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ThinkstockFriday’s big government release for economic data was the Producer Price Index (PPI). The aim is to measure wholesale inflation to determine what will happen to consumer prices and...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has provided retail inflation data via the March Consumer Price Index (CPI). CPI came in at -0.2% on the headline report, with only a gain of 0.1% on the core...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department this morning reported that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for February rose 0.7%, led by a 9.1% spike in gasoline prices. CPI is up 2% over...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department has two key reports out this Thursday. We have seen a rise in the weekly jobless claims. Consumer prices also ticked higher. Weekly jobless claims...
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Jon OggInvestors saw a slew of economic data on Tuesday, and in that data was a reading that wholesale inflation was under control. That should have put fears aside that inflation might tick up for a...
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ThinkstockThe Bureau of Labor Statistics is out with its reading on inflation. In November, the Consumer Price Index was -0.3% on the headline, and the core rate, excluding food and energy, rose by...
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ThinkstockThursday brought a lot of economic reports for the markets to absorb. The Labor Department reported its October inflation report via the Consumer Price Index, and it also released a major...
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported this morning that the U.S. consumer price index (CPI) did not change in July due to lower energy costs offsetting slightly higher food costs. Energy...
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The retail inflation reading for the month of June has now been released by the Labor Department. The Consumer Price Index for the month of June came in on a headline basis at 0.0%, and the core...
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This Thursday brought many economic reports, none of which are very good for the bulls. The bulls have another worry here as well and that is that the weakness seen here today is not really another...
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The Labor Department is out with its reading on inflation for the month of April. The Consumer Price Index was effectively flat and in-line with the Dow Jones target of unchanged. The core-CPI,...
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The Labor Department’s report on producer prices took out some of the inflation fears on Thursday and now we have the reading for the Consumer Price Index for the month of March. The headline...
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The Labor Department has just released its data on retail inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index. This was the December 2011 level and the figure came to +0.1% on the headline CPI and also...
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The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics has just released the December 2011 producer price index as a measurement of wholesale inflation in the United States. The December figure came...
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