Key Economic Indicators
U.S. Producer Price Index (PPI)
The Producer Price Index (PPI) measures average changes in selling prices received by domestic producers for their output. Most of the information used in calculating producer price indexes is obtained through the systematic sampling of virtually every industry in the mining and manufacturing sectors of the U.S. economy. Following two years of rapid growth, producer prices have been relatively stagnant during 2003 and 2004.
