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PPI report shows biggest surge in three years. Here's what that says about inflation.

Here's what new data from the producer price index says about where inflation is headed, according to economists.

Investors were blindsided by July’s hot PPI inflation reading. Why stocks mostly shrugged it off.

Earlier this week, falling bond yields and growing expectations for aggressive Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts in the ...

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq hit pause as hot PPI inflation data cools rate-cut rally

US stocks mostly stalled on Thursday as Wall Street digested a much hotter-than-expected PPI inflation print, souring ...

Trump Rate Hopes Burned as New Inflation Data Comes in Hot

The monthly rise was the biggest since June 2022, and the annual increase the highest since February this year. Core PPI, which strips out volatile data points, rose by 3.7 percent over the year, its ...
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Hot PPI Inflation Cools Big Fed Rate-Cut Hopes; S&P 500 Falls

The S&P 500 rally has a downside for inflation: surging portfolio management costs. Those costs surged 5.8% in July. Yet ...

Chart Of The Day: Is The PPI Proof Of An Inflation Problem?

The headline PPI reading rose 0.9% month-over-month. This was more than 4X the increase economists were expecting. Read more ...

Higher costs for services helped push PPI inflation higher

Stocks moved lower on Thursday as investors reacted to the producer-price index showing a 0.9% bump for the month of July.

Treasury Yields Rise After PPI Inflation Beats Expectations

Treasury yields ticked higher after the hotter-than-expected PPI reading, though yields remained below Wednesday end-of-day levels.