A Partial Report On E&S Prices In January’s PPI Gives Unclear Picture On First-Of-Year Changes

For some unknown reason, the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not report price changes for the cooking equipment categories in January’s initial Producer Price Index report. And with the next PPI already out March 15, John Muldowney, principal at Clarity M&A, and I decided to at least report the three categories BLS did report for…