Producer Price Index is inflation at a business-to-business level (in a nutshell).

For August 0.0% m/m

  • expected 0.2%, prior 1.1% m/m

5.5% y/y

  • expected 5.6%, prior 5.6% y/y

Overall final goods prices(these are the prices of finished products charged to businesses)

  • +2.6% y/y

Domestic final goods prices +1.6% y/y

  • is said to loosely correlate with CPI
  • given official CPI is around 0% it, for now, is not correlating.