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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach

School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies

Cornell University

16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky

New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau

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PRODUCER PRICE INDEXES - DECEMBER 2012 [15 January 2013]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ppi.pdf

[full-text, 22 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/ppi.supp.toc.htm

 

 

 

The Producer Price Index for finished goods declined 0.2 percent in December, seasonally

adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Prices for finished goods fell 0.8

percent in November and 0.2 percent in October. At the earlier stages of processing, prices

received by manufacturers of intermediate goods moved up 0.3 percent, and the crude goods

index increased 2.5 percent. On an unadjusted basis, the finished goods index rose 1.3 percent in

2012, compared with a 4.7-percent advance in 2011. (See table A.)

 

AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....

 

 

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