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The Labor Department said that the core producer price index for wholesale prices on goods excluding food and energy rose 0.5% in January, up from a 0.2% increase in December.
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The core prices in the producer-price index, which measures the cost of finished goods, rose 0.1%.
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Rising gasoline prices helped push wholesale prices higher, but the producer price index, which grew a seasonally adjusted 0.7 percent in February, has risen just 1.7 percent in the past 12 months.
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Released on Thursday, the Producer Price Index (PPI) shows that prices for finished goods rose 0.8% through April, essentially the same rate as in March, while prices for crude goods jumped.
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On Tuesday, we get the Housing Market Index, with housing starts and producer prices following on Wednesday.
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Those various components are weighted broadly in line with the structure of the economy, so that changes in consumer and producer prices account for about four-fifths of the total index, property about 15% and share prices 5%.
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The Labor Department's producer price index saw its biggest jump in 27 years, with prices jumping 1.2 percent in July.
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The price index for corporate goods in Japan , which tracks producer prices, increased by 3.6% in September compared with the year before.
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Joseph Carson, an economist with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in New York, has concocted such an index, which considers changes in property prices and share prices, producer input and output prices, along with consumer prices.
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It was first proposed 87 years ago by Irving Fisher, an American economist who believed that policy makers should try to stabilise a broadly defined price index which included asset prices such as shares, bonds and property as well as the prices of producer and consumer goods and services.
ECONOMIST: Should central banks try to target asset-price inflation?