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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 2013 [15 January 2014]

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

or

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

[full-text, 24 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

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

 

 

The Producer Price Index for finished goods advanced 0.4 percent in December, seasonally

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

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

received by producers of intermediate goods rose 0.6 percent in December, and the crude goods

index climbed 2.4 percent. On an unadjusted basis, prices for finished goods increased 1.2

percent in 2013 compared with a 1.4-percent advance in 2012. (See table A.)

 

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

 

 

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