November 22, 2010

Producer prices in October 2010 — stage-of-processing indexes

Over-the-month percent change in selected stage-of-processing price indexes, seasonally adjusted,October 2010
Month	Finished goods	Intermediate goods	Crude goods
October 2009	0.2	0.4	7.0
November 2009	1.5	1.1	4.2
December 2009	0.5	0.7	1.7
January 2010	1.3	1.9	8.5
February 2010	-0.5	0.0	-2.5
March 2010	0.8	0.7	1.9
April 2010	-0.1	0.8	-0.8
May 2010	-0.3	0.1	-2.5
June 2010	-0.4	-0.9	-2.6
July 2010(p)	0.2	-0.3	2.7
August 2010(p)	0.4	0.3	2.3
September 2010(p)	0.4	0.5	-0.5
October 2010(p)	0.4	1.2	4.3
Footnotes: (p) = preliminary

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