US Producer Prices Increased Less Than Forecast in May

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Source: Bloomberg

June 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM EDT
Updated on June 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM EDT


US producer price inflation remained muted in May, held down by tame goods and services costs.

The producer price index rose 0.1% from a month earlier, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report released Thursday. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for a 0.2% increase. Excluding food and energy, the PPI also increased 0.1%.

Goods prices excluding food and energy rose 0.2%. Services prices increased 0.1%, reflecting a pickup in wholesaler margins.

The PPI report follows May consumer price data that showed a fourth month of tame inflation. While the impact of higher tariffs has so far been modest for Americans, economists see price pressures building in the second half of the year as companies look to guard against further margin weakness.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-12/us-producer-prices-increased-less-than-forecast-in-may?srnd=homepage-europe

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The usual sites seem to be asleep for this story.

ETA and this might be why (from the source posted late vs their past "well oiled machine" social media releases) -

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8:47 AM · Jun 12, 2025

[Lovie777]

1. Prices are higher and still rising.................

there is a cover up and when the truth hits, it's gonna hit hard upon us, not the rich.

[Walleye]

2. TACO

[OrlandoDem2]

3. Dissent is not allowed. Anti-Trump data is not allowed. Anyone who believes this shit is a goddamn fool!

Prices are going up and if they’re “modest” it’s only because retailers scrambled to stock up on inventory before the tariffs kicked in!

The ONLY response should be to spend less. Close your damn wallets! Until people feel this economy impacting them personally too many Americans will still support Trump. Consumers drive this economy.

If you are reading this message you are likely a consumer. Cut your spending and drive this economy into oblivion. That is the ONLY way to keep driving his poll numbers down to where it gives a permission structure even for a few republicans to start calling him out!

[BlueTsunami2018]

4. Driving the economy into the ground hurts everyone.

I don’t want people to lose their jobs and I don’t want people to lose their retirement funds. I don’t want more people starving and I don’t want people losing their homes.

We depend on an expanding economy for millions to stay afloat. There just isn’t any way this country is going to move to a more sane economic system any time soon, if ever.

[OrlandoDem2]

5. I'm sorry but the only way to cut the MAGA populism BS is for pain to descend upon America.

These mofos are not gonna get up one day and experience some sort of enlightened awakening. It’s just the way it has to be.

Mussolini was dispatched when Italians felt pain.

Communism was jettisoned when Russians felt pain.

American-style Nazism will only be destroyed when Americans feel pain.

[purple_haze]

6. The pain you are talking about

took decades, in some cases many decades, to reconcile. Tanking the economy will hurt the poor the most. And everyone else will suffer along with them. Except for the rich who are virtually unaffected day-to-day by a tanked economy. So they can't buy a brand new Learjet and have to settle for one that's 20 years old, oh no.

[progree]

7. Thom Hartmann mentioned that the wealthy like downturns as an opportunity to buy stocks on sale, while the working

classes lose jobs and homes (the latter is another opportunity for the wealthy to snap up real estate on sale).