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The Producer Price Index ex Food & Energy (YoY) measures the prices that producers (businesses or manufacturers) charge for their goods and services – and how much they have changed over the past year (but not including the prices of food and energy).
Traders use it to monitor inflation pressures. If producer prices rise, it could mean higher consumer prices later on, influencing central bank decisions on interest rates.
The producer price index (PPI), often overlooked, can be utilised to assess the rate of change in prices. The PPI is a wholesale measure of inflation. The PPI is somewhat similar to the CPI with the exception that it looks at rising prices from the perspective of the producer rather than the consumer.
While the CPI looks at final prices realized by consumers, the PPI takes one step back and determines the change in output prices faced by producers.