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PPI-Final Demand  
Released On 12/11/2018 8:30:00 AM For Nov, 2018
 PriorConsensusConsensus RangeActual
PPI-FD - M/M0.6 %0.0 %-0.2 % to 0.2 %0.1 %
PPI-FD - Y/Y2.9 %2.5 %
Ex-Food & Energy - M/M0.5 %0.1 %0.0 % to 0.3 %0.3 %
Ex-Food & Energy - Y/Y2.6 %2.7 %
Ex-Food, Energy & Trade Services - M/M0.2 %0.2 %0.1 % to 0.3 %0.3 %
Ex-Food, Energy & Trade Services - Y/Y2.8 %2.8 %
US 6-Mo ChartGlobal Current
performance relative to consensus

Consensus Outlook
Producer prices did post substantial increases in October but the subsequent reversal in oil prices points to limited pressure in November. Following October's 0.6 percent jump, no change is expected for November producer prices. When excluding food and energy, prices are expected to rise only 0.1 percent while excluding food, energy and trade services, a 0.2 percent increase is expected.

Relative Performance Index

Econoday's RPI provides a handy summary measure of how an economy has recently been evolving relative to market expectations.
A reading above zero means that the economy in general has been performing more strongly than expected and vice versa for a reading below zero. The closer is the value to the maximum (+100) or minimum (-100) levels, the greater is the degree to which markets have been under- or over-estimating economic activity. A zero outturn would imply that, on average, the market consensus has been correct. Note too that the index is sensitized to place extra weight upon those indicators that investors consider to be the most important.

 

Definition
The Producer Price Index (PPI) of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a family of indexes that measures the average change over time in the prices received by domestic producers of goods and services. PPIs measure price change from the perspective of the seller. Effective with the January 2014 PPI data release in February 2014, BLS transitioned from the Stage of Processing (SOP) to the Final Demand-Intermediate Demand (FD-ID) aggregation system. The headline PPI (for Final Demand) measures price changes for goods, services, and construction sold to final demand: personal consumption, capital investment, government purchases, and exports. Why Investors Care

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