US EditionWholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, much more than expected
Wholesale inflation rose 3.3% year-over-year with services up 1.1%, the largest monthly increase since March 2022, driven by higher tariffs on imports, the U.S. Labor Department reported.
- The U.S. Labor Department reported the Producer Price Index jumped 0.9% last month, the largest since June 2022, raising the annual rate to 3.3%.
- Amid rising import levies, U.S. wholesale inflation rose by the most in three years as President Donald Trump's tariff hikes fed through supply chains.
- With services accounting for most gains, final demand services surged 1.1%, the largest since March 2022, while final demand goods climbed 0.7%.
- S&P 500 futures fell 0.5% and Nasdaq 100 futures were 0.58% lower after the data release, as traders pared bets on a Fed rate cut at the September meeting.
- Expectations for a rate cut next month are high, as money markets fully price a 25-basis-point reduction, according to CME FedWatch tool.
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The rise in wholesale prices in the United States last month seems to have almost completely erased the possibility that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates by half a percentage point in September, although expectations of a quarter percentage point rise next month, followed by another in October, remain intact. US producer prices rose 0.9% in July, amid an increase in the cost of goods, but also of services such as the wholesale sale o…
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