The producer price index, a gauge of ex-factory prices, rose 6.8% in April from a year earlier, higher than March's 5.9% rise and above the poll's median forecast of a 6.5% rise.

四月份生产价格指数(PPI)(出厂价格)同比上涨了6.8%，同样超过了早期预测中线6.5%。三月份该数据为5.9%。

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The Producer Price Index, which measures prices on goods before they reach consumers, rose 0.4 percent in August because of rising energy costs.

衡量出厂商品价格的生产者价格指数8月份增长0.4%，由于能源价格持续攀升。

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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 core prices in the producer-price index, which measures the cost of finished goods, rose 0.1%.

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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.

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