US producer prices were up as expected in September, with the Producer Price Index (PPI) rising 0.3% month-on-month, according to data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The figure ...

US producer prices fall unexpectedly by 0.1% in August, defying economists’ expectations for a 0.3% increase and providing the Federal Reserve with additional breathing room to approve an interest ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. producer prices fell unexpectedly last month, dropping 0.1% from July. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that its producer price index — which captures inflation in the ...

The figures show that consumer spending, the lifeblood of the US economy, was somewhat weak heading into the current quarter, which stretches from October through December. In September, employers ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. producer prices unexpectedly fell in August amid a compression in trade services margins and mild increase in the cost of goods, suggesting that domestic firms were probably ...

US wholesale inflation picked up in September from a month earlier on higher energy and food costs that offset more modest advances in other consumer goods. The producer price index rose 0.3% from a ...

U.S. stocks traded mixed midway through trading, with the Dow Jones index falling more than 250 points on Wednesday. The Dow traded down 0.56% to 45,456.80 while the NASDAQ rose 0.12% to 21,905.19.

September’s retail sales report provided the first official read on consumer spending in two months after the government shutdown paused a broad range of economic releases.