Como se combate o populismo? "Com eleições", responde Fukuyama

[djovarius]

Parecendo que não, há uma subida de 5.7% em 12 meses, não é coisa pouca.

Só não será tão grave o número de Janeiro, porque parte da subida reflecte o aumento dos custos da industria automóvel, que atingiram 1.1%

Abraço

dj

[Infoo]

U.S. PPI up 5.7% year-on-year; core PPI up 1.5%
U.S. Jan. PPI higher on vehicles, food, drugs, electricity
U.S. Jan. PPI energy prices flat
U.S. Jan. PPI crude prices fall 0.5%
U.S. Jan. PPI intermediate prices up 1.2%
U.S. Jan. core PPI up 0.4% vs. 0.2% expected, most in a year
U.S. Jan. PPI up 0.3% vs. 0.2% expected

ECONOMIC REPORT: Biggest gain in core PPI in a year; Vehicles, electricity, drug price gains push wholesale inflation higher
Last Update: 8:31 AM ET Feb 17, 2006

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - U.S. producer prices rose faster than expected in January, with price increases for cars, trucks, electricity and drugs leading the way.

The producer price index increased 0.3% in January, while core prices (which exclude food and energy) rose 0.4%, the biggest gain in a year, the Labor Department said Friday.

Economists were expecting 0.2% gains in both the headline PPI and in the core PPI, according to a survey conducted by MarketWatch.

The PPI increased a revised 0.6% in December and core prices rose 0.1%.

In January, for once, energy prices had little to do with movement in the PPI. Overall, energy prices were unchanged. Residential electric power prices rose a record 3%, but were offset by a 3.5% drop in wholesale gasoline prices.

In the past year, the PPI has risen 5.7%, while core prices are up 1.5%.

Auto prices rose 1.1% and truck prices gained 0.7%, Crude food prices rose 0.5%, with rice and cooking oils leading the way. Jewelry prices soared 2.7%, likely the result of higher prices for precious metals, especially gold. Drug prices rose 0.6%.

The Federal Reserve has warned that further increases in short-term rates may be needed to quell inflationary pressures.

However, the PPI is not the main inflation gauge that Fed officials watch; they prefer to watch consumer prices as measured by the Commerce Department's price index for personal consumption expenditures.

The consumer price index will be released next Wednesday.

In the January PPI, moderate price pressures were seen further back in the production pipeline.

Intermediate goods prices rose 1.2% behind big increases in natural gas, electric power, chemicals, lumber and metals.

Commercial electric power prices rose a record 4.5% in January, a reflection of higher natural gas prices. Natural gas prices rose 5.7%.

Core intermediate prices rose 1% and are up 4.8% in the past year.

Crude goods prices fell 0.5% in January, as declines in foodstuffs and industrial materials more than offset a 0.6% increase in crude energy prices.

Coal prices rose 10.1%, the most in 32 years. Prices of industrial materials fell 0.1%. Iron and steel scrap prices sank 8.4%, while nonferrous scrap prices jumped 6.8%, the biggest rise in 12 years.