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By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP ECONOMICS WRITER Dante Wadley shops for apples at the Union Square green market on Wednesday, May 14, 2008, in New York. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that consumer prices edged up 0.2 percent last month, compared to a 0.3 percent rise in March. Inflation at the... [read full story]
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By Martin Crutsinger Associated Press via Houston Chronicle Sunday, May 18, 2008 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5782768.html WASHINGTON -- If only beleaguered motorists and shoppers could make their gas pains and food sticker shock go away with the ease that the government can. read more
Tuesday the Labor Department will issue April data for the Producer Price Index. The consensus forecast is for a 0.4 percent increase in the headline number and a 0.2 percent increase in the core index—the increase in producer prices with energy and food prices removed. In March, the headline...
May 20, 2008 -- A top government official who helps calculate the nation's inflation rate says gasoline costs in the consumer price index will surge in a couple of months - even if prices at the pump don't. "We are going to show huge increases," predicted Pat Jackman in a telephone interview with...
by: Toro posted on: May 20, 2008 | about stocks: article, consumers' inflation expectations appear to differ quite markedly compared to investors' inflation expectations. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, or TIPS, show traders anticipate inflation of about 2.95 percent by January, in line...
Dante Wadley shops for apples at the Union Square green market on Wednesday, May 14, 2008, in New York. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that consumer prices edged up 0.2 percent last month, compared to a 0.3 percent rise in March. The lower inflation reflected a flat reading for energy,...
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER , Associated Press WASHINGTON - Inflation at the wholesale level slowed in April following a huge increase in March although prices for a number of items from prescription drugs to pasta shot upward. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that wholesale inflation edged up by...
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER ; AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON -- Inflation at the wholesale level slowed in April following a huge increase in March although prices for a number of items from prescription drugs to pasta shot upward. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that wholesale inflation edged up...
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer 7 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Inflation at the wholesale level slowed in April following a huge increase in March although prices for a number of items from prescription drugs to pasta shot upward. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that wholesale...
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP ECONOMICS WRITER Dante Wadley shops for apples at the Union Square green market on Wednesday, May 14, 2008, in New York. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that consumer prices edged up 0.2 percent last month, compared to a 0.3 percent rise in March. The lower...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Producer prices rose by a smaller-than-expected 0.2 percent in April after gasoline prices sank, government data showed on Tuesday, but core inflation at the producer level posted a larger advance. Economists polled by Reuters had expected that producer prices - a gauge of...

