February 18, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Producer prices in January
The Producer Price
Index for Finished Goods showed no change in January, seasonally adjusted.
This followed a 0.1-percent increase in December and a 0.2-percent advance
in November.
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The index for finished goods other than foods and energy fell 0.2
percent in January, after edging up 0.1 percent the previous month. At the
earlier stages of process, prices received by producers of intermediate
goods rose 0.4 percent, following a 0.2-percent increase in the prior
month, and the crude goods index advanced 2.7 percent, after a 3.9-percent
decline a month earlier.
From January 1999 to January 2000, the finished goods price index
increased 2.5 percent (unadjusted). Over the same period, prices for
finished energy goods advanced 17.5 percent, finished consumer foods
declined 0.4 percent, and finished goods other than foods and energy rose
0.8 percent. Prices received by domestic producers of intermediate goods
moved up 4.1 percent for the 12 months ended in January 2000. The index
for crude goods registered an 18.0-percent gain in the same period.
These data are a product of the BLS Producer
Price Index program. Find out more
in Producer
Price Indexes, January 2000, news
release USDL 00-46. All producer price indexes are routinely subject to
revision once, 4 months after original publication, to reflect the
availability of late reports and corrections by respondents.
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