February 22, 2011 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Producer prices in January 2011 � stage-of-processing indexes

Over-the-month percent change in selected stage-of-processing price indexes, seasonally adjusted, January 2010�January 2011
Month	Finished goods	Intermediate goods	Crude goods
Jan 2010	1.1	1.7	8.8
Feb 2010	-0.4	0.1	-1.7
Mar 2010	0.7	0.6	-1.0
Apr 2010	-0.1	0.8	-1.9
May 2010	-0.2	0.2	-3.3
Jun 2010	-0.3	-0.7	-3.0
Jul 2010	0.1	-0.4	1.5
Aug 2010	0.6	0.6	3.3
Sep 2010	0.3	0.4	0.6
Oct 2010(p)	0.6	1.2	4.7
Nov 2010(p)	0.7	1.1	1.3
Dec 2010(p)	0.9	0.9	6.5
Jan 2011(p)	0.8	1.1	3.3
Footnotes: (p) = preliminary

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