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A producer price index inflation spike is on the way too

As with the CPI, a PPI year-over-year inflation spike is baked in the cake.

Producer price index month-over-month April 2020

  • PPI: -1.1%.

  • 2020 Goods: -2.8%.

  • Services: -0.4%.

  • Energy: -17.3% .

Producer price index month-over-month February 2021

  • April 2020 PPI: 0.5%.

  • April 2020 Goods: 1.4%.

  • April 2020 Services: 0.1%.

  • Energy: 6.0%.

Q: Why does Energy have such a small impact on the PPI?
A: The following chart explains. 

PPI final demand weights 

Chart

Energy is 15.5% of goods but only 5.0% of the overall PPI. 

PPI year-over-year 

PPI

Producer price index year-over-year April 2020

  • PPI: -1.5%.

  • Goods: -5.2%.

  • Services: +0.3%.

  • Energy: -30.7%.

Producer price index year-over-year February 2021

  • PPI: 2.8%.

  • Goods: 3.4%.

  • Services: 2.5%.

  • Energy: 5.5%.

What's going to happen?

The year-over-year comparisons in March, April, and May are going to show huge percentage year-over-year jumps, especially April and May due to comparisons vs. the initial pandemic numbers in Spring of 2020.

Services will act as a bit of a stabilizer given they constitute 66% of the PPI, but the energy numbers are so huge they will have a very noticeable impact.

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