September 19, 2011 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Producer prices for finished goods, August 2011

1-month percent change in selected price indexes for finished goods, seasonally adjusted, August 2010–August 2011
Month	Foods	Energy	Finished goods less food and energy
Aug 2010	-0.1	2.5	0.1
Sep 2010	0.9	0.0	0.2
Oct 2010	0.5	3.0	-0.3
Nov 2010	0.8	1.6	0.0
Dec 2010	0.8	2.5	0.2
Jan 2011	0.4	2.8	0.5
Feb 2011	3.5	2.9	0.2
Mar 2011	-0.4	2.8	0.3
Apr 2011	0.5	2.2	0.3
May 2011(p)	-1.1	2.0	0.1
Jun 2011(p)	0.6	-2.8	0.3
Jul 2011(p)	0.6	-0.6	0.4
Aug 2011(p)	1.1	-1.0	0.1
Footnotes: (p) = preliminary

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