Producer Price Inflation Comes In ‘Red Hot’ In November
Following yesterday’s reported re-ignition in consumer price inflation (despite people seemingly being exuberant that it was ‘as expected’ – we don’t remember The Fed’s mandate being stable prices in line with consensus expectations?), this morning’s producer prices were expected to accelerate further also to +2.6% YoY from +2.4% YoY.
But it didn’t…
Headline PPI surged 0.4% MoM (+0.2% MoM exp) – biggest MoM jump since June – which lifted the YoY rise in producer prices to +3.0% – far above expectations and the highest since Feb 2023…
Source: Bloomberg
Headline PPI’s big jump was driven by food costs (rising at their fastest since Nov 2022)…
Source: Bloomberg
Services costs are accelerating fast on a YoY basis and Energy’s deflationary pressure is evaporating rapidly…
Source: Bloomberg
Core PPI (ex-food and energy) rose 0.2% MoM as expected but the YoY core PPI jumped dramatically to +3.4% YoY – also the hottest since Feb 2023…
Source: Bloomberg
Does that look like an inflationary backdrop that needs a rate-cut next week?
Tyler Durden
Thu, 12/12/2024 – 08:36
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/producer-price-inflation-comes-red-hot-november

